THIRD TIME LUCKY

the oldest still existing on the Australian mainland (or possibly only the oldest stone bridge) was actually part of the third attempt at scaling the face of the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney. It followed William Cox’s road, built in 1814, and the Lapstone Zig Zag Road of in 1826. The latter, now called Old Bathurst Road, was built because Cox’s Road was hard to maintain. Not that the new road would prove to be much better. Even this