The one thing that has to be done when you go to Sydney is the harbour Bridge climb. Just like bungy jumping in New Zealand, its one of the things that you cant really leave without doing, although I have left before without doing it!!! I set off for my harbour bridge one beautiful sunny day looking forward to the face that i could still get a tan while climbing and not have any problem with trees being in the way or anything like that.
Unfortunately I got that completely wrong. I far from was able to get a nice tan because we were given these hideous all in one grey suits with a little bit of blue and a picture of the harbour bridge. Apparently this is so you blend in with the bridge-although im pretty sure its not grey- and avoid distracting the drivers on the road below. After we got our suits on we were given all our equipment. A belt was tied around us with place for attaching a flees is we got called a "ball and chain" for attaching to the wire all the way around the brifhe for safety and a pocket for the radio. After this was dont we attached the accessories. We had a choise from a fleece beanie, a sun hat, thread for holding your sunglasses, and lots more. Once all the accesories we attached our pa system, which did not involve any ear phones but some sort of system that allowed us to here through our cheek bone-i wasnt really listening when she explained it all, something to do with vibrations. Finally all geared up and weighed down with plenty of necessities, we weere ready to begin our adventure. There was around 14 of us on the journey altogether, 2 from Aus too many from the states and a few from england and the irish girl. One man and his wife were celebrating his birthday, another man and his son were celebrating there mums birthday while she went shopping, and the rest, like me, were doing travelling. We were all attached to the continuous wire and started our journey towrds the summit of the bridge. The views were spectacular. Unfortunately we were not allowed being our cameras though. I could see right across the harbour over to the botanical gardens and I could see car ships coming in on the other side. I couldnt see however, any clouds in the sky. We got our pictures taken with the opera house in the background, we got our pictures taken looking cheesy, we got a group one done and we learned lots about the bridge. 1437 steps later we were back down at the bottom of the bridge removing our accesories and sad to be at the end of our trip. We were given a group picture to take home as a memory- I of course bought more after that- and it was done. I had climbed the harbour bridge.
Having absolutely loved my day so far I decided not to stop there and decided to go to the opera house tour. I stopped for some lunch and made my way over to the opera house. I went to buy my ticket and the lady asked if i had a student card and I showed her it. And she said to me: "oh i dont know, its a bit out of date-1990", I responded- "no thats the year I was born!"- "I was thinking you were a student for a very long time!!" I did get my student price however and we began the tour just as the sun was setting in sydney. We walked around the outside and got some fabulous pictures of the opera house and the harbour bridge in sunset. It was absolutely fabulous. I have seen so many sunsets on my travels but everytime I see one I am amazed and lost for words. We continued our tour learning some really interesting information about the opera hoyse - the architect who designed the opera house has never seen it fully completed, and unfortunately never will. I also had the pleasure of going in and seeing the rehearsals for the Australian ballet. We sat for about 10 minutes watching people dance around the stage so gracefully and beautifully, it was fabulous. Finishing my tour I was completely satisfied with my day, and I headed home full of love for the beautiful city of Sydney.
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