St Francis Bay
After a filling home-made breakfast at Seaview B&B and a greenhouse tour I hit the road continuing west on N2 enjoying glimpses of the Indian Ocean…
…and the rolling hills of the Garden Route headed towards Tsitsikamma National Park.
First stop of the day was a tourist trap parking lot on the west side of Paul Sauer bridge with a 630 foot (192 m) arch over the Storms River.
Completed in 1956, the Ricardo Morandi designed bridge is unusual for having inclined spandrel supports that radiate out from the main arch rib.
The Paul Sauer bridge is one of the tallest bridges in South Africa standing 405 feet (123.44 m) above the the Storms River.
I stopped into the “gift shop” and bought some cool refrigerator magnets of South Africa’s Big 5 for Berta. Then continued down the road to hike the Big Tree Trail.
The rolling hills and moody clouds in that photo are wonderful. Is it cold in Yarnell now? Hope the RV is warm!
I am enjoying the tour of South Africa!
The mountain views are beautiful, and the bridge design is unusual. Tourist traps are ubiquitous, but what would we do without our souvenirs.
Since I seem to have a thing for bridges, I think this one is cool. And the tourist trap, ummm, I mean parking lot must have been similar to the one we stopped in at Cape Foulweather. 🙂
Ahhhhh those memories again. I have wonderful memories of Storm River while camping with my mother, must be almost 35 years again now, but I have camped there since with Nigel. Great times. Diane
Thanks for this great pictorial tour. :)Beautiful views!
The Storms River gets it name from the fact that its a very short river right against the mountains and it doesn't need a lot of rain to raise its level and come down in flood.
A great post Gaelyn. Gotta go back!!
Always back to Tsitsikamma.