Today's photos are of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge. There is a neat story behind why this bridge was built.The original bridge was built in 1954 and in during a terrible storm in 1980 a big freight boat, with little to no visibility, crashed into the bridge and knocked a big chunk of it down. Due to this terrible accident they had to build a new bridge that was completed in 1987. If you look at the sides of the bridge they have huge bumpers that offer protection to help avoid such a disaster again. Talk about learning from your mistakes :-). What was really cool is that they left up a portion of the old bridge on each end and use them as fishing piers and I was able to take these photos from there.
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