The Regency Bridge, north of San Saba.

A few weeks ago, my buddy Ellis, another teacher out here at the prison and a local boy, guided me out to a cool site north of town.



The Regency Bridge, swinging freely between San Saba county and Mills county, has been around for a very long time. Like most of us, it's fallen a few times and had to be repaired, but it's still goin' strong.



If you drive out on it and stop, you can feel it sway. It's hilarious. That's Ellis there. I told him I'd put him in there for scale. That's the Colorado river flowin' out behind him. It's flowin' a lot higher now, from the rain we've had in the last few days.



The evidence I saw showed that the local teenagers, and maybe a few others, use the site for nocturnal adventures.



Many of them have carved their names, or the names of their conquests into the rock or wood around the bridge.



The cliff overlooking the river on the San Saba side seems to be a particularly popular spot.



You can see that cliff there, on the left of this shot.



Built in 1939, the bridge you see here replaced an original that dated from 1909. The first bridge fell, killing a boy, his horse and some cattle. The next was swept away in a flood in 1936.

If you want to see some further shots of the site, click here and go to my FlickR site. Cheers!