What do you mean "We are going up there"?

No photo's this time, as we were not allowed to take them.

But yes, Sydney, as most of you know, is build around a bay. And across this bay are several bridges, one of them, apparantly the longest single span bridge. The thing is about 134 meters from the water level, and this morning, I was on top of it.

We had to get up for this experience at the ungodly hour of 6.30 in the morning, which was just plain painful. But as I had fallen out of bed during a very strange dream at 2.30 prevously, I wa sin pain already anyways, so hey, that was doable. We arrived at the bottom of the bridge at about 8.30, and went to get suited up and instructed.

Man were we unpleasantly dressed. What with the wind-chill and the safety-stuff and all we were dressed in these one size fits nobody-type greyish jumpsuits, with batman-style belts for the radios and clippy things to stop us from plummeting the aforementioned 134 meters. After a dry run on how to climb a ladder (slowly, and difficultly, if my group was to be believed) we were "allowed" out.

Out into the wild open air above sydney, into a beatiful view. Climbing and descending the bridge takes about three hours, and the nice tourguide people give you sime background information on the bridge. Being somewhat scaed of heights and definitely scared of deep, open water, I missed most of these bits of information. But the views were gorgeous.

So, so beautiful, you really get to see the whole of Sydney, the bay-heads and all the little white boats. Seriously, this is THE tourist attraction of Sydney, and very expensive with it. I'm not saying it's worth the money, but it is certainly worth getting over your nervousness for.