RuneE is sponsoring this monthly challenge on the first Monday of every month. Building Bridges is subject to open interpretation.
My "building bridges"entry is sorta unusual this month. The bridge is the river itself. When tall ships come up the Columbia River, the I-5 bridge has a section that rises and allows the ships to go further east or west. I moved here in 1985 and this was the first time I ever saw the bridge raise and lower again! The passage of tall ships from one side of the I-5 bridge to the other is my BRIDGES BETWEEN this month.
Saw these two ships in the Columbia River a week ago Saturday. They were here for the Rose festival celebrated this week. Their sails were too tall to go under the bridge so it a part of it was lifted and then lowered after their passage under it.
The two ships have reached the other side of the bridge and it begins to go down again.
Traffic resumes on the bridge between Vancouver, Washington and Portland, Oregon.
28 comments:
I think your idea for the bridge is great and the steal construction is on the first look a little bit rough ...but, the connection soft it up, I like it :)
My bridge is up want you to know ;-)
A very nice presentation. Very slow motion video
According to the idea behind the Bridges fellowship
Amazing!
Interesting bridge.
Nice bridge post and lovely photos!
I have never seen this construction before only bascule bridges.
Drawbridges are fascinating in their various mechanisms of accomplishing the task. They aren't fascinating when you get stuck waiting for one.
very interesting and great bridge, excellent.
Oh wow Paulie i have never seen the bridge do that. Never been close to it when it was letting a ship come in
Great shots
Enjoyed your shots of the bridge raising and lowering. I'm sure that was a sight to see!
Great 2 posts here Bridges and Odd shot.
both mine are up too.
WHAT a strange bridge !!!
What a cool bridge... do they charge for raising and lowering? You got that airplane framed perfectly, too.
That was extremely interesting. I have never seen a bridge of that kind. How simple - just lift the whole section! Around here we usually tilt two section in the middle, one at each end.
Pretty spectacular! I've seen similar but smaller bridges in Holland.
And i say wow!!!
Great post. I have been over that bridge several times and never seen it up.
Thanks for sharing.
Our Bridge is Built.
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Troy and Martha
An impressive construction! :)
Great post!
That is neat. I've not see one before.
Mama Bear
Wow, that is some bridge. I'm thankful I don't have to cross it.
Fantastic! I have never seen a bridge like this before!
Very nice sky watch Friday too :)
Exellent post!
It's the first time I see such a bridge.When I was younger, I lived near a river.When the boats could not go under the bridge THEY had to bend aerials, radars ..The bridge didn't move!
I like your river Columbia;the first time I saw it was in a movie with Arnold shwarznegger, (he was a cop but had to teach in a elementary school);the story took place in Astoria, Oregon, and I liked to see the tall boats on the river...
Wow...very neat! I love how you've shown the sequence.
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an excellent series of photographs affording us a nice insight.
That is so cool! I've never seen anything like that!
Me again - The carpentry was not mine. There will probably be a bit more of it on SWF and also later...
The whole section goes up and down! Wow, never seen that before.
Thanks for the lesson.
I've been over this bridge but never realised that it did that! Great pictures.
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