Waluliso bridge has been disassembled.
Due to the heavy rain in the last days and to prevent flooding in Vienna the weir to the New Danube was opened and the whole leisure zone, including the nudist area around Waluliso Bridge, was flooded:
The stink of mud lies in the air; and as I write this lines the smell rises up from memory again and seems to fill my flat. The boats making up the pontoon bridge now are free to rise and fall with the flood.
This is no special occurence at all, of course, and would happen every year at some time - but usually not already at the end of august, beginning of september. The bridge most likely will stay closed from now on till spring next year.
For me this means that I'll have to take a detour down to the lower weir of New Danube in order to get to Lobau national park. That's a nuisance, but no big deal - means only a few kilometres more on flat terrain, or a few miles alternatively; with that I can cope.
