It is about 5 – 6 hours’ drive from here and we were delayed in getting away.
So back to last week’s WIIW
There were three guesses.
Susan guessed: “An out-of-focus shot of the side railing on a bridge?”
No, but your guess is probably the closest. It is a structure similar to an old timber bridge. 60%
Marcy guessed: “or distant raised highway? Or cracks in a wall...? Honestly, nothing comes to me. But I'll be curious to find out!”
Well your shot-gun approach has missed the mark, 30%
Finally Misha guessed: “I also think it's a raised highway.”
I can see why you guessed that, but no 30%
Meet Coffs Harbour Jetty.
I took this on my lunch break last Monday (please forgive the dodgy quality I only had my phone)
Despite it being winter down this way it was a glorious day so I went for a stroll in my break.
My new office is about five minutes’ walk from the vantage point where I took these.
Coffs Harbour is about a 90 minute drive from our mountain hideaway. Not too bad for a bush commute time!
The jetty was completed in 1892 and in the early days formed the main link between Coffs and Sydney.
In the nineteenth century and early twentieth century the only practical means of transport along the NSW coast was by sea. The north coast railway line, between Sydney and Brisbane, was not begun until 1905 and was not finished until 1932 with the building of the bridge over the Clarence River at Grafton.
This piccie from Wikipedia shows the Jetty in its heyday.
The ship the SS Fitzroy did a weekly run between Coffs and Sydney between 1912 and 1921 when it sunk in a storm with the loss of 31 lives of the 35 people aboard.
These days of course people fly between Coffs and Sydney (or drive if they don’t mind 6-8 hours in a car). So the Jetty is nothing but a tourist attraction and a handy place to cast a fishing line.
This last piccie shows the whole harbour. The modern marina and fishing fleet harbour is on the left side between the mainland and Muttonbird Island.
1 comment:
Cool. That's better than I usually do.
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