This is the Byangum Bridge, between Uki and Murwillumbah. Since I live with Suzy and Pete and they read old newspapers online all the time, I thought I would have a look. While reading the Tweed Daily from the 1920s I discovered that a bridge was built here by the Tweed Shire Council and opened in 1926. Before then there was a ferry but that sank the year before when a logging truck that was too heavy tried to travel across the river. I read lots of reports on floods that would stop people from using the bridge. In the late 1940s there were calls for it to be replaced with a higher bridge but I can't see whether this happened. When we were looking at the bridge today we saw that some of the headstocks had been treated with CCA because they were green and a lot of the decking was concrete, so perhaps the bridge had just been rebuilt in parts over the years. It closed in the early 1990s when the council finally built a high level bridge. The old bridge was cut and the middle bit removed.

We had previously been there in 2016 when we came looking for a cache - except that the cache was on the other side of the river. Last year there was a really big flood around Murwillumbah so this was the first time that we had seen it since Cyclone 'Debbie' visited. All I could say was wow, a lot of the decking had moved and there was a really big tree truck stuck underneath. Just shows you the power of the water, but it was also very interesting because you could see under the bridge - that's how we knew some of the headstocks were new.

Thank you for this locationless cache.