Sydney Harbour Bridge Climb | Fly to Gold Coast
Coasterz 'n' Canyonz Blog Day 04
Final Day in Sydney Today was a chill-out day around Sydney Harbour.
Sydney Harbour Bridge Pylon Lookout
Pylon Lookout LocationAs part of last nights bridge climb, we were given free tickets to the pylon lookout tower, which also contained a museum about the bridge construction. A great view of the bridge and Opera House enabled us to get some photographs of other climbers to demonstrate the size of the bridge.
2 groups of climbers ascend the bridge.
Climb groups reach the summit (>400 ft)
The standard climb route up.
Left of bridge, group on the way down, right of bridge, group on the way up.
This shows the scale of the bridge construction.
The hardest part of the climb is getting onto the upper deck via these 4 ladders between the road lanes. On the way down, they're done in reverse between railway tracks.
Bridge from "The Rocks" area.
Sydney Opera House close up.
From the bridge.
Downtown Sydney from the Lookout Pylon.
Luna Park from the other side of the harbour.
Today's Lunch $24.16 (~£18.50)We thought this needed a blog entry to show how expensive Australia is for UK visitors and, of course, inflated prices around the tourist spots - but average out to £3 an item!!!!!. The rest of the week we're watching our cents very carefully, except for this evening where...
We met up with fellow coaster enthusiasts Malcolm and Martin. Just by chance, they had arranged a trip that put them a day ahead of us in Australia. So we arranged to catch up at Hard Rock cafe in Surfers Paradise, Gold Coast after flying up here this evening. Until tomorrow............
Martin, Malcolm, Ian & Adrian @ Hard Rock Surfers Paradise