Milkish Inlet No.1 (Bayswater)

Today we went in search of the Milkish Inlet bridge, the last one in Kings County left for me to visit.  And what a gorgeous day out we had finding this one.  We took the Summerville-Millidgeville ferry across the Kennebecasis River to get to the Kingston Peninsula.  I prefer this one to the busier Gondola Point ferry further upstream, as it takes a bit longer and feels more like an adventure than a commute.   [Click here for up to date ferry crossing information.]  And then it is a very short drive to the bridge, 3 or 4 km.  

This is beautiful cottage country along here, perfect for slow afternoon drives, and there are also a few lighthouses to find on the way if you are an enthusiast.  I've added a picture of the rather unusual Sand Point lighthouse at the bottom of this page, for interest.  

A fairly busy bridge, there was steady traffic going across it while we were there.  It had a  number of boards missing or damaged on the south face that one would expect to have been repaired before this late date in construction/repair season. 

Inside, there were a couple of places where vertical steel reinforcement bars had been added to the structure, something I haven't seen before.

Underneath, you can see the concrete pier  in the middle supporting the two spans of the bridge.   The vast majority of New Brunswick's covered bridges are single span, though some of these have had steel beam piers added to save them from collapse, or to allow for the increased weight of modern  traffic.

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Sand Point lighthouse  

This light, high on a skeleton tower, was built in 1869, one of the inland system of lighthouses along the Saint John River.  An enlargeable map with links to all the lighthouses in the province can be found here: Lighthouses of New Brunswick.