Examples. 1  The fellahin were the real Egyptians: Arabic-speaking peasants, traditional farmers whose precarious methodsâthe waterwheel powered by a cow or donkey, irrigation through the annual Nile floodâhad changed little since pharaonic times. Three Empires on the Nile.
The Matlacha Bridge (pronounced Mat-La-Shay) is a small single-leaf drawbridge located in Matlacha, Florida. It carries County Road 78 (Pine Island Road) over Matlacha Pass, connecting Pine Island with the mainland in Cape Coral.he current span is 9 feet tall, similar to its predecessor. After its demolition, the previous bridge (the one built in 1968) will be made into an artificial reef at Novak's reef, which is about 3 miles off the coast of Charlotte County.
It wasnât always an easy car ride to Matlacha, but anglers by the hundreds traveled the path to unbelievable fishing from the bridge nicknamed âThe Worldâs Fishingest Bridgeâ. Below are a couple paragraphs from an article titled âFloridaâs Fishingest Bridgeâ dated January 1955 in the Florida Wildlife Magazine.f you lived in, traveled or moved to Matlacha it was for one sole purpose, fishing. Well, things never were the same, but when they opened the new bridge fishing was surprisingly good. I was lucky to grow up only a few hundred yards from the bridge.