Families who have been ferrying their children to school in kayaks can finally travel again by road after the town's bridge was rebuilt last month, more than two-and-a-half years after it burnt in the 2019–20 Black Summer bushfires.
The loss of Murphy's Bridge near Bodalla on the state's south coast added about 64 kilometres onto the daily school run and cut Cadgee residents off from services and support.
While the physical scars of the fire remain on the bush and the psychological ones remain for those who lived through it, the new concrete structure is helping people move forward in more ways than one.
