Sydney Bridge Climb

Today was another busy day. We met Justin around 11:30, but prior to meeting him, Heidi and I toured around the Queen Victoria Building (QVB). It was beautiful and full of shops. Who could ask for more!!!

We met up with Justin and his sister and his mom for Yum Cha (we call it dim sum). I had never had dim sum and I have to say, I really enjoyed it. After lunch we went to the aquarium, the sky tower and the wildlife center and Heidi and I got our picture taken with a Koala. We couldn’t hold them because it is illegal apparently. But we did get to pet it so I was happy about that.

After we saw all the wild life and sea life we could stand it was getting closer to time to do the bridge climb! We went for dinner in The Rocks area which was very near where we needed to get on the bridge.

So now, our Bridge Climb adventure begins. Now, most of you know that I am adventurous and like to do lots of stuff, but I will admit that I was a little nervous/scared to do this climb, especially after seeing the bridge. Once we got there we were in the waiting area and watching a video of what all you were going to do the prepare. We had already gone to the bathroom, but noticed in the video that you would get a chance to use the restroom before the climb. So they began by giving us the wind suits. Our guide was amazing…she looking us all up and down and picked out the exact size for each of us. No one had to change for a different size. So we get the wind suits on and Heidi and started wondering are the going to give us a bathroom break before we get all of the gear on? So far no break…so the next thing we do is grab our harnesses and put them on. Once we had them on I really started to wonder how in the world I was going to go to the bathroom with that rig on. Next it was headlamps, fleece jackets in a pouch incase we got cold, and radios so we could hear our guide. Of course the radio was only one way…we couldn’t communicate with her through them, so I guess if we found ourselves hanging off the side of the bridge we were SOL. 

Next we did a test run inside on the steps that we would be climbing while on the bridge. Well of course everyone breezed through them, they were probably only 12ft off the ground. They didn’t practice what to do if you panic climbing those stairs high above solid concrete with cars traveling below.

So the climb finally beings. The first part was a little scary b/c it was a small walkway and you were looking down at cars/concrete below you. But over all, it was not as scary as I had made it to be in my mind. And I am very glad we did it at night. The city was full of lights. It was gorgeous. We took pictures on the bridge with the Opera house in the background, then once we were at the top we took a group shot of everyone in our group. The group shot was complementary, but we did buy some of the other pictures. 

I would recommend if you are ever in Sydney to do the climb.

Sorry I have no pictures to put on here for the climb, but  they are all on CD and my little laptop doesn’t have a disk drive. I’ll have to post them when I am back home.