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| well-deserved coffee at Lewers Cafe, Emu Plains |
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| still very smoky |
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Showing posts with label knapsack bridge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label knapsack bridge. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
What a week! Wordless Wednesday.
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Time for a jaunt - bridges and bathing rosellas
Lucky for me that it wasn't raining today!
I planned to go for a walk to one of my favorite spots to fulfill one of my daily photo challenges.
I seem to be always a day behind with my challenges this month - and I'm only doing two! (sorry justB, I seem to have baled on #amonthof).
Anyhoo, off I set.
It was a fine sort of day.
The walk is only about an hour and goes along the line of the old zigzag that took the railway up the escarpment of the Blue Mountains , at Lapstone Hill.
Then there are steps down to the gorgeous Knapsack bridge used to carry the main road out of Sydney up Lapstone Hill and all destinations west.
I never cease to be amazed by the stonework and the elegant arches.
The design of arches is astonishing - they stay up and seem to defy gravity.
Then down the bottom in the relatively lush waters of Knapsack creek were two crimson rosellas having a bath!
I wish the photos were better, but in my defence it was a bit gloomy down there, I was a fair way from them, I was using my little compact camera and they were moving around pretty vigorously.
And my photo for the photo challenge?
"Under" for the Fat Mum Slim photo a day challenge.
I planned to go for a walk to one of my favorite spots to fulfill one of my daily photo challenges.
I seem to be always a day behind with my challenges this month - and I'm only doing two! (sorry justB, I seem to have baled on #amonthof).
Anyhoo, off I set.
It was a fine sort of day.
The walk is only about an hour and goes along the line of the old zigzag that took the railway up the escarpment of the Blue Mountains , at Lapstone Hill.
Then there are steps down to the gorgeous Knapsack bridge used to carry the main road out of Sydney up Lapstone Hill and all destinations west.
I never cease to be amazed by the stonework and the elegant arches.
The design of arches is astonishing - they stay up and seem to defy gravity.
Then down the bottom in the relatively lush waters of Knapsack creek were two crimson rosellas having a bath!
I wish the photos were better, but in my defence it was a bit gloomy down there, I was a fair way from them, I was using my little compact camera and they were moving around pretty vigorously.
And my photo for the photo challenge?
"Under" for the Fat Mum Slim photo a day challenge.
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
I'm in training...but, shhhh
....it's a secret!
Just in case things don't work out the way I want them to.
Anyway I need to get fitter and I need to go up and down hills, so today I started.
Luckily I live in a place called the Blue Mountains, so there are a few hills - it's not really mountainous compared to other parts of the world, but for my purpose it will do just fine!
In my neighbourhood is the start of the Blue Mountains, the escarpment as you rise up from the Sydney plains.
This is Elizabeth Lookout and I could actually see the towers of Sydney, but it was a bit of a fuggy day - on a clear day you can see better.
So I walked down to under Knapsack bridge.
This used to be the main road from Sydney west to the rest of Australia!
It is a magnificent construction, built from local sandstone.
It was originally built as the viaduct for the railway crossing bulit in the 1880's but the railway was re-routed and the bridge became a road bridge in the 1920s.
It was even widened later to make 2 lanes - you can see the dark part at the top is the extra roadway.
When the new super-dooper road was built in the 1980 the bridge was preserved and you can walk across it.
Anyway I walked down, down from Elizabeth lookut right down to Knapsack creek which has a lot of water in it at the moment - it looks nice and clean but it isn't!
And you know what they say - "what goes down, has to come back up again"?
So then it was up, up, up all the steps back to the top.
How did I go?
Well I was huffing and puffing and had to stop many times on the way back up.
My left knee was a bit sore - and I was very hot and sweaty!
But it's a start.....more to come....
Just in case things don't work out the way I want them to.
Anyway I need to get fitter and I need to go up and down hills, so today I started.
Luckily I live in a place called the Blue Mountains, so there are a few hills - it's not really mountainous compared to other parts of the world, but for my purpose it will do just fine!
In my neighbourhood is the start of the Blue Mountains, the escarpment as you rise up from the Sydney plains.
This is Elizabeth Lookout and I could actually see the towers of Sydney, but it was a bit of a fuggy day - on a clear day you can see better.
So I walked down to under Knapsack bridge.
This used to be the main road from Sydney west to the rest of Australia!
It is a magnificent construction, built from local sandstone.
It was originally built as the viaduct for the railway crossing bulit in the 1880's but the railway was re-routed and the bridge became a road bridge in the 1920s.
It was even widened later to make 2 lanes - you can see the dark part at the top is the extra roadway.
When the new super-dooper road was built in the 1980 the bridge was preserved and you can walk across it.
Anyway I walked down, down from Elizabeth lookut right down to Knapsack creek which has a lot of water in it at the moment - it looks nice and clean but it isn't!
And you know what they say - "what goes down, has to come back up again"?
So then it was up, up, up all the steps back to the top.
Well I was huffing and puffing and had to stop many times on the way back up.
My left knee was a bit sore - and I was very hot and sweaty!
But it's a start.....more to come....
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