Photo Blogging Challenge - June

Each month, P.J. over at a 'lilhoohaa hosts a photo blogging challenge. This month's prompt was bridges. Now, I couldn't afford a plane trip to L.A. in order to hunt down Lloyd, Beau or Jeff so I had to make do with some local talent. With rivers, canals and highways, the Ottawa area has plenty of bridges.

There are some nice rustic wooden bridges out of town on the Quebec side of the Ottawa River. Here's one on the way to Wakefield, Quebec...

And if you make it to Wakefield you'll see this covered bridge...

Back in Ottawa the Pretoria Bridge crosses the Rideau Canal. It's a lift bridge and stops traffic every time a boat large enough has to float beneath it.

What many call the E.B. Eddy Bridge is actually known as the Chaudieree Crossing. This is a series of bridges across the rapids of the Ottawa River between Ontario and Quebec through the old E.B. Eddy paper factory. Here's one section...

And finally, one of my favourite local bridges is the Royal Alexandra Interprovincial Bridge which joins downtown Ottawa to Hull, Quebec over the Ottawa River. The structure was built by Canadian Pacific Railways in 1900 and back in the day this bridge had train tracks down the centre with traffic on each side. Now the oncoming traffic runs down the centre and a pedestrian lane is over on the far left.

Click on P.J.'s link up there and check out the work of the other photographers.