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.
Recently, I actually counted 220 fishermen on this bridge, while a few hundred yards north of the bridge in about a quarter of a mile-square space of water, I counted 42 boats, each with two or three persons fishing from them.They all appeared to be reeling in fish.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.