London Bridge, Great Ocean Road, Victoria, Australia.
The London Bridge Rock Formation, or what is left of it. You used to be able to walk out across a linking archway before it collapsed back in 1990. I know because I did it when I was much younger. Hearing the story of the collapse made me a lot more careful about where I go now just to get a decent photo. Previously I just assumed all these dangerous events just happened during big storms and high seas but in this case two tourists actually got stranded out there then the first archway just disappeared. I bet it made a hell of a noise. The stranded tourists ended up having to be rescued by the police helicopter.
I took this photo from the beach of London Bridge before the collapse; it would have been in 1989. You can see three tourists standing right on the soon to fall archway. I think it would have been a rare day off for me, I was back in Melbourne after finishing my Electrical apprentice in Queensland working and working long hours and weekends on the Melbourne Central high rise building project.
This lookout is all part of the Port Cambell National Park along the great ocean road in Victoria a couple of hour drive from Melbourne. It is fun getting to revisit places which I have visited years before.
This is another old photo of mine from 1993. I had just finished working a ski season in the New South Wales Snowy Mountains and was driving around Australia with a couple of work friends in my car.
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That's a classic you have some old London Bridge shots. I'm sure we do too, somewhere. I remembre the news when it came down.
I have sort of used Hive as a digital photo back up. I don't think the photos are actually stored on the block chain but I find it easy to find and share images that ever before.
London Bridge, I love it and at first thought it was a reference to Australian independence!! The way it eroded away and separated! Maybe that’s not why it’s called that but love it.
Reminded me a bit of the Azure Window in Malta, a rock stack that was joined to the mainland and actually broke off a few months after my wife and I visited.
Ha! maybe it was the convicts ancestors. Come to think of it I think there was a failed referendum around then as well to break away from the Commonwealth.
That’s what I was thinking of, the commonwealth!
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I know I struggled that day but I'm glad you're sharing the photos here so I can appreciate the views again. !LUV
Very scenic road, for sure. I wonder if the tiding allows one to walk under that arch.