Well, not a bridge, exactly. The creek goes under the busy street via a culvert. There are railings along the sides of the sidewalks on both sides of the street, so you don't just fall off and into the water. They're practical, around here.
I don't know where the creek begins. But from here, and we're looking downstream at it, from this side of the street, it meanders thru a lot of residential areas, crosses under another busy street, then joins a marsh, which broadens and becomes a bigger creek, until it looks like a river, and actually empties into a tidal river, which is an estuary, if you want to get technical about things. Then the estuary goes into the bay, and the bay connects to the ocean.
This water just happens to take the long way around, to get to the ocean. If it could hop into a car, it could be at the ocean much quicker.
In a particular place, some distance from this spot, this stream is joined by the other stream, the one that just suddenly appears out of nowhere, that I probably talked about some number of posts prior to this one. They meet up in the marsh, sort of.
I kind of figured out that the other stream, the one that just suddenly appears out of nowhere, is part of the storm sewer system around here. So the water that falls from the skies and goes into the sewer grates along the streets ends up becoming a stream, which then joins the bigger creek, and on into the really big water.
It's all connected. Which is how, when you throw something dirty and polluting into the street, it ends up fouling the ocean. And a lot of territory betwixt and between.
We are all connected. All of us who inhabit this planet. Which is why it's so important to look out for one another, and take care of each other. All of us.
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