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Old 14-11-2011, 07:23 PM
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Originally Posted by AstralTraveller View Post
I've seen a couple of old wooden bridges with bends in them, one much bigger than that. If the pylons aren't sunk in far enough and are still in the river gravel they will eventually move downstream as the gravel is moved by large flows. I imagine you might even see the difference are a good flood.

The Bend was a combination of the floods plus a bloody big log giving it a hammering a few years ago



But what about quality of life? Probably up overall, though there can be downsides to being too accessible.
We are reasoably far away from Civalisation to keep our way of life at the moment, but that could change as the price of land on the Sunshine coast is spiraling ever sky ward
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