Wednesday, September 1, 2010 Named for the Georgia-born poet and musician, the Sidney Lanier Bridge was built across the South Brunswick River in 2003 to replace the original lift bridge with the same name. I did a double take when I drove over it in Brunswick, Georgia for the first time last week. The bridge looks very similar to the Dames Point Bridge in Jacksonville, Florida. In fact, these are the only two cable-stayed bridges in the US with a harp stay arrangement, in which the cables are nearly parallel to one another. (Contrarily, in the fan design, the cables connect to or pass over the top of the tower, so that they are further apart at the opposite end where they connect to the bridge.) On my way home from St Simons Island today, I pulled over at the northwest end of the bridge. Remnants of its predecessor were converterted to a pier. I walked to the end of the pier to photograph the bridge. From this vantage point, it looks like a giant reptile!