Great Harbor Bridge

Kaohsiung’s Great Harbor Bridge is a horizontally rotating bridge. We didn’t see it in action, but it has some interesting features.

The octopus looking sculpture has tentacles, each of which lead to a drum. I tried playing the drums, but you really need a mallet to make a good sound with them. (Somebody must play them though, because the head of each drum has a sign asking people not to play them after 10 pm.)

On the roof of a shop by the bridge are special horns that make sounds when the wind blows strongly enough. (They remind me of the cloud busting machine in the Kate Bush video.) We certainly would have appreciated a strong breeze today, not just to hear the horns but to cool us off.Read more