Sydney Harbour Bridge Walk

Tuesday was the day we would come down from Robert and Eveline’s Blue Mountain Idyll and Marion would challenge herself by going up on the Bridge Walk. No, I was not joining the height thing being the problem. Instead I had my own challenge, just getting out of the Megalong Valley! It is a 20km ride from Glyn Newydd the last kilometre of which is switch backs which the local council having run out of money have not provided any protective barriers. Scary stuff!

Back to the real point of this Posting, Marion’s Bridge Walk. Robert had originally suggested we might like to do the Walk and that he would come with us. Marion took him up on the offer so Robert booked the places including two extra for his daughter Lottie and her friend Molly.

We drove down in convoy from the Blue Mountains and went straight to the Harbourview Hotel where Marion and I were staying and Robert and the girls shot off to go and look at the Circular Quay area. Marion I had lunch and Marion then had a little snooze, didn’t she have any nerves, before leaving for the walk.

I can not tell you anything about the walk other than when Marion returned she was very excited about the whole event. While it is physically not a doddle, there are well over 1000 steps to climb and the to descend, the views are spectacular, they had been particularly lucky to be up on top while a very large cruise liner had passed under the bridge. The whole event takes a little over 3 hours. A lot of this time is spent in preparation and ensuring that everybody is tuned into all aspects of safety, you are in special one piece suits, long hair must be tied up, no one can carry anything with them and everybody is attached to the bridge at all times. The Walk was an unqualified success.

While on the Walk the leader takes photographs of the participants and so Marion has some photographs and a certificate. I will try find a way to get them into the photo albums in due course.

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