Edith Cavell Bridge

This morning we went from Apex to Hertz rental car (Apex have no dropoff facility in Dunedin! and they are a Kiwi company as well. Very odd.), and then decided to have another go at Coronet Peak. On the way we went over the Shotover River, which caught us by surprise, so we stopped and had a look.

Lovely little gorge, and a beautiful wooden bridge known as the Edith Cavell bridge (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Cavell_bridge).

Edith Cavell was a WW1 nurse who was executed by the Germans in 1915 for assisting Allied soldiers escape to the Netherlands from Belgium. When the bridge was due to be opened, a miner, Jack Clark, wanted to call it the Edith Cavell bridge, but the authorities declined. Jack then painted a sign "To Cavell Bridge" in large red letters which was visible to all those attending the opening ceremony, and also painted "Edith Cavell Bridge" on the bridge itself.

The name stuck and it eventually became the Edith Cavell bridge.