In the middle of nowhere...
and there is a darn car already in the tunnel. What. This tunnel is almost literally in the middle of nowhere, on a track of the main road and even that is insignificant. And when we arrived, there was already a car heading through.
The tunnel is hewn from solid rock and not lined with the usual brick or concrete. Excavated a distance of 192 metres, the tunnel is the longest unsupported tunnel in the southern hemisphere. However, in more recent times it appears to have been sprayed with shotcrete, probably to stabilise smaller rocks from falling. And what about the bats who live inside, well you can still see their little bodies under the spray on concrete. Ha ha, got you there, there are no bats frozen in time (or concrete) but I must admit, I don't know how they did it!!!
In the middle of nowhere...
and there is a darn car already in the tunnel. What. This tunnel is almost literally in the middle of nowhere, on a track of the main road and even that is insignificant. And when we arrived, there was already a car heading through.
The tunnel is hewn from solid rock and not lined with the usual brick or concrete. Excavated a distance of 192 metres, the tunnel is the longest unsupported tunnel in the southern hemisphere. However, in more recent times it appears to have been sprayed with shotcrete, probably to stabilise smaller rocks from falling. And what about the bats who live inside, well you can still see their little bodies under the spray on concrete. Ha ha, got you there, there are no bats frozen in time (or concrete) but I must admit, I don't know how they did it!!!