Mooney Mooney Creek Bridge, popularly known as the Mooney Mooney Bridge, is a twin cantilever bridge that spans Mooney Mooney Creek in Brisbane Water National Park on the Central Coast of New South Wales as part of the Sydney–Newcastle Freeway. It is the highest road bridge in Australia as measured from the road bed to the water 75 m (246 ft) below. It was opened in December 1986 and is maintained by the Roads and Traffic Authority of New South Wales.
The Sydney–Newcastle Freeway is the main road link between Sydney and the Central Coast, Newcastle, New South Wales and Hunter Valley. The only other road that links these regions is the Pacific Highway which from Cowan to Kariong follows a scenic winding route.
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“It launch’d forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself,
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And you O my soul where you stand,
Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space,
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—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)