Hampden bridge. The only surviving suspension bridge in Down Under.
I just love big creations of engineering minds. Mad minds, sometimes. At least I still can’t really understand how did they manage to build such enormous thing as Sydney Harbor Bridge in 1930′th. Of course, I have read its history and seen archive photos, but the amount of the work they did still looks enormous (and it really was enormous!) to me.
But, as it happens, Australia still has something not that gigantic but not even a bit less exciting monument of engineering genius. Before we stopped for a lunch at Cambewarra lookout, we passed Kangaroo valley, where we did not find any kangaroos (and we did not really look for them, actually), but we have found something very spectacular. That was Hampden bridge. If you follow the link, you may find that the bridge was build in the end of 19th century and it is still in use, and RTA regularly checks its condition and it is still safe. Pretty amazing, isn’t it?
