Old Bridge Over Chaweng Lake?

[joe84330]

i always hear stories about this old bridge but it was taken down prior to my arrival here 5 years ago. anyone have any photos? i tried GIS with no luck, forum search didn't help either. would like to see some photos!

[MSingh]

The Lake wasn't a Lake about 6 Years ago, when i first came it sort of like a Swamp kind of thing..

[joe84330]

Rooo please change my thread title to the ol' bridge over the swamp kind of thing, thanks.

[Jiu-Jitsu]

I have some old photos somewhere. They will need to be scanned. Could take months before I find them.

Of the Reggae Pub and surrounds circa 1992.

[Birdman]

In the middle that small wooden footbridge turned sharply to the right for a few meters and then back to the left. Motorcycles were lying in the water beneath that regularly, which could be seen in the morning. And that's the only thing noticeable.

[PoorSucker]

From google earth.

Edited February 26, 2011 by PoorSucker

[Birdman]

no, PS, not on your pictures. It was in the middle and ended directly at the Reggea Pub

[tit50]

I found it at Flickr.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/38905063@N06/4279258422/in/faves-kohsamui/

[joe84330]

haha i knew this forum would come through. thanks everyone for the photos, more would be welcome. cool to put a photo with all of the stories i've heard.

[robsamui]

The Lake wasn't a Lake about 6 Years ago, when i first came it sort of like a Swamp kind of thing..

Nope - deffo not a 'swamp' - as Birdman points out there were dead motorbikes under the water around the kink in the middle. I used to take an (old, heavy) 400cc Kwacker back and forth across that relic, in the days when big bikes were few and far between. The badly nailed wooden planking would see-saw up and down as I 'walked' the bike across (usually too pissed to have actually walked across on my own)and there was only just enough room on the kink to shuffle my bike through it.

Thanks for the photos - brings back memories!

R

[nod]

I found it at Flickr.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/38905063@N06/4279258422/in/faves-kohsamui/

Great picture. Thanks. Happy memories eh?

However that picture shows an upgrade of an earlier much more rickety version which was truly scary for bikes!

[joe84330]

showed this photo to a friend of mine who's been living on samui for the last 15+ years. he was a bar owner on the reggae side the entire time the bridge still existed. when i showed him the photo he started to reminisce, including a story about watching one obviously intoxicated person stumble out of reggae pub, get on his bike and lurch forward, striking the reggae pub wall. not done there, he managed to turn the bike around only to go forward long enough to hit a tree.

reorienting himself, he then proceeded to drive across the bridge.

[Trapper]

That bridge looks a bit sturdier than I remember it!

We didn't call it the rickety old bridge for nothin'.

[Maipenrai007]

1993 - What a great pic, really there should be a Samui Museum in the years to come!

[Birdman]

...with 1:1 replicas of these small triangle 20 Baht beach bungalows and extras, who show what the first farangs on Samui did...

[robsamui]

That bridge looks a bit sturdier than I remember it!

We didn't call it the rickety old bridge for nothin'.

aha - there are 2 photos here. The small thumbnail shows the old bridge like it used to be. The bigger pic was the upgrade!

R

[crusty]

I found it at Flickr.

http://www.flickr.co...faves-kohsamui/

Great pic and isn't that the start at The Black Cat nightclub about where Chaba Resort is now ?