Track Notes

A perfect day. A good friend picked me up and took me to the 6am Canberra to Sydney bus. A $2.50 train ride (could have bussed/trained/ferried all day on that one ticket as an old Senior!) to Wynyard to meet Chris and Cynthia, then a short stroll through the historic rocks area to the BridgeClimb office. Met Janet.

My climb was a gift - thank you Peter K and Seminars Australia. A well-oiled procedure to get us kitted up and ready for the climb. Obviously very safety conscious. Our 11.35am group of 11 + guide was one of many. We had Canadians, Belgians, Polish folk, Aussies and the 3 of us from Canberra. A new group sets off around every 15 minutes.

The walk goes high up under the approaches to the bridge, up beside a pylon, then up an arch to the very top. An absolutely beautiful day overlooking the finest harbour in the world. Then back down the opposite arch.

Wonderful guide Nicholas told many stories. The second best was the description of the riveting parties - the catchers missed around 10,000 of the 6.6 million rivets used in the construction and these lie at the bottom of the harbour. The best story was of the old cast iron urinal under the approaches to the bridge, a gift from the French - "The USA got the Statue of Liberty, we got the urinal!"

Finished around 3pm. Chris and Cynthia drove me back home whilst I had a ziz - a perfect end to a perfect day.

Walk Participants

3 walkers from Canberra - Cynthia B, Janet E, me.