5 October 2022 - THE BRIDGE TO NOWHERE - NEW ZEALAND

 

THE BRIDGE TO 

NOWHERE

- NEW ZEALAND -

G'day folks,

This bridge was designed to connect a road that never came to fruition.  

Deep in the forest of Whanganui National Park is the “valley of abandoned dreams,” and a lone concrete bridge.

 

Though only accessible by boat up the Whanganui River, the first pioneers in the area believed that eventually, a road would link to the valley. They constructed the bridge in anticipation, but the road was never developed.

Left isolated, they faced a lonely wilderness too difficult to tame. Today, the area is abandoned but the Bridge to Nowhere still stands as a symbol of the ill-fated settlement.

 

25 August 2019 - STUNNING CAVES OF HOCKING HILLS STATE PARK IN LOGAN, OHIO

STUNNING CAVES OF HOCKING HILLS STATE PARK 

IN LOGAN, OHIO

G'day folks,

Welcome to another great place to visit. Rare recess caves fill this unbelievably beautiful Ohio park.

 People don’t believe the pictures are from an Ohio park, but many who know of this incredible landscape consider it the most beautiful land in the Midwest. Striking rock formations speckle the park, which is filled with gorges and caves waiting to be explored.

 These caves and gorges are more than just intriguing slivers of land to explore. They also speak to the park’s long geologic history.

Thousands of years ago, when the Wisconsin Glacier began to melt and recede, its waters bled across the land that’s now part of the park, rushing through cracks in the ground and scarring the earth with deep, winding gorges and recess caves, which are rock shelters carved into the soft sediment. The caves are certainly large enough to wander within—The Rock House cave has a ceiling that’s 25 feet high, and the main corridor is 200 feet long and up to 30 feet wide.

 The human history is interesting, too. Old Man’s Cave is the most popular attraction and was named after a hermit from the late 1700s who lived in the cave. Ash Cave was named because when the colonial settlers first discovered it, they found mysterious, massive piles of ashes created by Native Americans waiting within.

Clancy's comment: Worth visiting if you get the opportunity.

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