Cambroon has a new bridge

[astroron (Ron)]

Anyone coming to Cambroon in the future will travel in style over our new bridge
54mts long 9 mts above normal river hight and $2.65 million dollars.
Cheers

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

She looks lovely Ron. I will miss the old one though, it had so much character. Not many bridges have a bend in the middle of them.
I do believe your house price will have gone up now. Really I do.

[astroron (Ron)]

Yes Jeanette, we will remember the old one
Here's a reminder for your album
Cheers

[Ric]

It looks a beauty Ron.

I expect you wont be having too many flood problems now.

Cheers

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

Awwww goodbye old bridge.

Wow Fantastic new bridge . And it looks like they minimized the vegetation destruction on the embankments.

Congrats Ron, its about bloody time for you poor buggers over there. Finally a flood resistant bridge.

Thank goodness for the floodway below your place you can still get flooded in periodically

[RobF (Rob)]

Heck, that looks like a superhighway now Ron.
So glad you've saved a happy snap of the old one though - was certainly a novelty, but suspect you won't be missing it.

[AstralTraveller (David)]

Originally Posted by jjjnettie

She looks lovely Ron. I will miss the old one though, it had so much character. Not many bridges have a bend in the middle of them.

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.

Originally Posted by jjjnettie

I do believe your house price will have gone up now. Really I do.

But what about quality of life? Probably up overall, though there can be downsides to being too accessible.

[GrahamL]

How much are they going to bump up your rates Ron ,bridges arn't cheap these days

[astroron (Ron)]

Originally Posted by Ric

It looks a beauty Ron.

I expect you wont be having too many flood problems now.

Cheers

Ric, we will still get flooded in,but maybe not so much as Chinaman creek flows into the Mary River and so when the river is high the creek backs up so we can't get out anyway to use our You Beut Bridge
Cheers

[astroron (Ron)]

Originally Posted by [1ponders]

Awwww goodbye old bridge.

Wow Fantastic new bridge . And it looks like they minimized the vegetation destruction on the embankments.

Congrats Ron, its about bloody time for you poor buggers over there. Finally a flood resistant bridge.

Thank goodness for the floodway below your place you can still get flooded in periodically

Hi Paul, apparently the river is in good health as a bloke from the Cambroon Caravan Park told me this morning he saw two Platapus's this morning
See my reply to Ric re flooded in
Cheers

[astroron (Ron)]

Originally Posted by RobF

Heck, that looks like a superhighway now Ron.
So glad you've saved a happy snap of the old one though - was certainly a novelty, but suspect you won't be missing it.

Rob, you will have to come and give it a try some time
Cheers

[astroron (Ron)]

Originally Posted by AstralTraveller

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
Cheers

[astroron (Ron)]

Originally Posted by nightstalker

How much are they going to bump up your rates Ron ,bridges arn't cheap these days

Graham,The $2.56 million was paid mainly by the State and federal Governments under the rural infrstructure fund or something like that, so no Rates increase as far as we know
Cheers