Probably about eighteen months ago I mentioned these amazing tunnels
carved into the hillside with farmland still above.
Believe there were a couple of teenagers living on this farm doing their HSC [major final school exams] at the time the blasting took place.
Today I had a driver so I could finally take some photos …
these tunnels are part of a major motorway and we are not allowed to stop.
This is why it’s taken me so long to give you a glimpse
of this major engineering feat.
Thanks, Kate, for mentioning the farm, because that’s so cool (in addition to the tunnels themselves, of course)!
What a striking contrast – farming, which people have been doing, well, forever, literally conducted atop a monument to modern engineering..
How sublime (and, a touch unsettling) to set about your typical farming tasks, knowing a major highway pulses beneath your feet! In one perfect contrast, the ancient and the modern.
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thanks Keith you said that very well but our farming here is only just over two hundred years … our traditional land owners have survived here for 65,000 years – yes the world’s longest surviving race!
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Sure, Kate. Of course, by “we” I meant all people, in our countless varieties. While “my” people haven’t attempted anything more ambitious than a suburban garden for centuries now, other people have been doing it for longer than anyone can remember!
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true 🙂
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Absolutely amazing and oh so cool.
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I’ve driven through some tunnels like that cut through the mountains. I’m not sure if there was any farms on top though. A mountain is quite a bit of tonnage to support. I like it when I travel some divided state highways and wild flowers have been planted. But that isn’t always the case. Too often the space is just grass that needs mowing.
From some air travel I’ve seen farms on top of mountains. If I can’t live by an ocean, a farm on a mountain with a natural lake would work 😉
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I loved that the built tunnels instead of cutting through the farmland on top! And the pictures are fun, too.
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I tried to describe it when I first saw it, so glad I finally found a driver and could get good snaps at 110 km per hour Ann 🙂
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love how they went under instead of over the farm land! 🙂
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It’s cool. They have tunnels like this in England, mostly near wales are those I’ve been through. I’ve never realised how amazing it is until now.
Happy weekend
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Pretty amazing isn’t it. And great snaps taken from the window Kate. Hope all’s well with you.
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Interesting. Thanks for sharing.
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Indeed, what a feat! We have metro lines built crisscrossing under the bustling city of Delhi!
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ah yes I’ve travelled on your metro many times 🙂
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Looks lovely on the outside. So good to see greenery around.
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Awesome Kate, thanks for the photos, our modern day engineering feats are truly incredible……..
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Wowza! Fascinating! And you captured some great photos!
Did the driver honk the horn in the tunnel?! I know people who do that! 😀
We have to drive through a tunnel when going to my oncologist’s office (a long drive away from home) and while I like tunnels, when we get right in the center, I’m like “smooth sailing, please” until we get to the other side! HA! 😀
HUGS!!! 🙂
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Wow!
This certainly looks so amazing. I went through a one such tunnel in Dubai back in 2017. One amazing experience it was.
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Beneath a mountain it is actually. You can view the video I made:
https://www.flickr.com/gp/hammadrais/71Z2JZ
My Uncle and his family hired a SUV for the trip and we spent heavy amount of time on the roads. It is one of the 2 videos I made on that trip, which I regret very much because I could have made more then.
Well, may be next time 🙂
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it’s always enjoyable to just soak up a new country without recording it all 🙂
You’re right those tunnels look very similar, just a square shape
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Wow awesome and yes technological marvel, Kate. Lovely pictures of the tunnel.
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Great photos of a great feat of engineering. I hope those students doing their HSC exams weren’t too distracted.
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