Climbing the Harbour Bridge

Climbing the Harbour Bridge!
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I haven't updated the blog in a while as LOADS has been going on and I've been MEGA busy!

I flew back from Adelaide after spending the weekend with my parents and just got stuck back into work... Mum and Dad, in the meantime, were having a great time travelling from Adelaide to Melbourne along the Great Ocean Road and seeing all the sights.

They arrived in Sydney the following Friday and we had a great night out down at Circular Quay (they were very impressed with the view of the Harbour Bridge and the Opera House).

The next day was my Dad's birthday - YEEEAH!

I had been planning this for a while so we had loads of things to do!

We went down to the Rocks and checked all that area out before heading to the main event... Climbing the Harbour Bridge!

It had been a cracking day, really sunny and up to 30 degrees at one point (phew!) but as we were doing our training and getting our fetching jump suits on - it started to chuck it down! Oh no!

There was also an electrical storm! So they kept us waiting for about an hour until we could get on to the bridge - at one point we were not sure if they would let us go at all (I guess the last place you want to be in an electrical storm is on top of a really high steel bridge!) but eventually they sent us up! Wicked!

It was really cool up on the bridge and it had stopped raining by then but was a bit windy… The crazy weather just added to the adventure though and we had a great time! Our guide Dave was a LEGNED! He was really cool and was making me laugh! The view was amazing, especially at night, and it is an experience I would recommend that every visitor to Sydney does… IT WAS AWESOME!

My Dad loved it too so it was a wicked thing to do on his birthday.

After that we got changed out of our jump suits and went to Café Sydney which is one of the swankiest restaurants in Sydney.

We had a great meal in there sitting out on the terrace with a spectacular view of the harbour. It was cool. A massive cruise ship pulled out of Circular Quay whilst we were there too so that was good to see, bit of a manoeuvre for the driver as the ship was even bigger than the Opera House!

So a wicked day, a great birthday for my Dad and climbing the bridge was AWESOME!