Huge trees stretch up to the light way above ..round another bend we come across an old weir..the town nearby used to get its water from here decades ago.. its pipes are rusted and half devoured by the passage of time.
This whole area is a stones throw from suburbia but is isolated from it entirely
Down further we come across what resembles a flying fox crossing the gorge
Its made of one inch stainless cable and has massive steel pillars holding it up .. it looks completely out of place
i have since found out water resources put it there after the 74 floods with the plan to send somone out to the middle
in a rageing flood to measure the water velocity underneath
.. As the old fella next door pointed out you could never access
this area in flooding weather anyway .. much less get a volunteer to shimmy out to the middle in gale force winds driveing rain and a rageing torent flowing underneath .. so there it sits almost 40 years on and never once used ..its good to know govt depts no longer stupidly waste money like this anymore
