The bridge that doesn’t meet in the middle is one of the interesting things we came across on this particular day on our house sitting travels. We will come to the bridge soon, but first, we checked out the little town of Beechworth to experience the ‘time capsule’ effect. From our base in the village Glenrowan, Ned Kelly’s ‘end of the road’ capture that ended on the gallows in Melbourne, Beechworth is only a half day excursion so we only set out at lunch time and it seemed no time we were there. 
Beechworth panorama” by Taken byfir0002
It’s only 40 ks or so from the ‘capital’ of the area, Wangaratta and the first surprise was the presence of a lake in the middle of town.
For some reason this apparently insignificant detail was absent from the information I gathered before we set out. Lake Sambell came as a bit of surprise and although it is clearly a distinguishing feature and a little hard to miss. From what we read, it was a pit where gold was mined and later filled or allowed to fill in the 1920’s. It’s not like it’s something new that has just been overlooked and there’s a nice little caravan park too as one would expect. 
The town was interesting enough and there’s a fair bit to see around the area but we were really only there to give it the ‘once-over’.