This was one location in the project that is *completely* different now to what it was thirty years ago! Between 2009 and 2013 the dam was enlarged, and the old dam is now submerged underwater a hundred or so metres upstream of the new dam.
1986 - Cotter Dam
1986 - Cotter Dam
1986 - Cotter Dam
1986 - Cotter Dam
2016 - Cotter Dam
2016 - Cotter Dam
Looking upstream towards the dam you can see the old footbridge. It was burnt out in the 2003 Canberra bushfires. It's about at the same location that the current new dam. They've built a new bridge downstream from the new dam as a reminder of the famous old bridge.
1986 - Cotter River and footbridge
2016 - Cotter River and footbridge
Looking downstream along the Cotter River
1986 - Cotter River
2016 - Cotter River
And finally a photo I couldn't reproduce at all - the lake formed by the dam. There's no access to the top of the dam anymore. But if there were, this whole view would be underwater anyway!
1986 - Cotter Dam
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