Bridge to Nowhere
Winya_wynah
Tue 2 Mar 2010 23:00
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From the tram in Wellington - yes we have crossed
the divide between the South Island and the North Island!
(Skipper's birthday was spent in Picton and
Wellington, the latter at a concert by Madeleine Peyroux and Diana
Krall)
 To the Bridge to Nowhere!
 Built between 1935 & 1936, the bridge was
to serve a new settlement that the government had set up deep in the Mangapurua
Valley.
But a combination of the remote location and the
depression meant that the venture was abandoned leaving only the Bridge to
Nowhere.
We travelled to the bridge along the Whanganui
River by jet boat and returned down river by Canoe.
 River gorge
 Then we headed north again around Lake Taupo,
below as seen from Maggie and Mike's home in
Kinlock.
 Geothermal Walk through the Craters of the
Moon
 Aratiatia Rapids - so this is as they open the
gates (which happens 4 times a day in the Summer)
 This is before the water has come under the bridge
from the gates
 then, same place, whoosh
 The rapids in full flow as seen from the other
end!
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