Sunset Lake Floating Bridge

Filed under: Google Sightseeing — Wrote by Lees on Saturday, January 26th, 2008 @ 10:55 am

The
Sunset Lake Floating Bridge in Brookfield, Vermont is actually
a GSS first, as we’ve never
featured a floating bridge before.

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Built on floating logs all the way back in 1820, upgraded to
tarred barrels in 1884, and plastic barrels in 1978, this is
actually the seventh version of the bridge, which despite long
periods of closure during its lifetime is today open for you to
drive your car over if you’re in the area.

Bear in mind that you’re more than likely to get a little wet
though, as the bridge was actually designed to be http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f2/Brookfield_VT_bridge.jpg
permanently semi-submerged…

You can read more about the bridge at http://www.roadsideamerica.com/tips/getAttraction.php?tip_AttractionNo==1375
Roadside America. Thanks to Jel.

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Floating Swimming Pool

Filed under: Google Sightseeing — Wrote by Lees on Sunday, December 23rd, 2007 @ 8:17 pm

This is
the Badeschiff or “bathing ship” in Berlin, Germany - an old
barge which has been converted into an outdoor swimming pool,
actually in the River Spree.

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Opened in the summer of 2004, the facilities have proved highly
popular as it has allowed Berliners http://www.inhabitat.com/images/badeschiff_summer.jpg to
swim (at least in a figurative sense), in the long polluted and
unsanitary Spree. In fact on closer inspection you can see
several people swimming when this image was captured.

The 32 metre-long pool also has a bar with DJs until midnight,
and is even open http://www.inhabitat.com/2006/03/24/berlins-winter-badeschiff/
all-year-round.

Read more http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badeschiff at
Wikipedia.

Thanks to Jake.

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