Up the Coat Hanger - Jun 08

This weekend I celebrated my birthday by doing the Sydney Harbor Bridge climb (with Greg and Craig). Me having a fear of heights (remember the Eiffel tower), I did not even think of that as I made the booking. I was just thinking I have living in Sydney my whole life and as a Sydneysider this is something I should do, especially for my travels around the world I need to advertise for Aus.

I did not really have any fears of the height until it was too late and I was locked in all dress (in the sexy jumpsuits) and ready to go off with the group. The practice with the safety clip was fine. As we started to go out onto the platform over land to begin the walk is when I started to go weak at the knees. I had to keep telling myself just look out and not down and you will fine. Walking over the water looking down through the open grates was ok for me it felt very open and if you were walking on air at some points. As it turned out I was the slowest person and the only one with a fear of heights.

Scroll back in time……..the reason why they didn’t look after the person with the fear was due to Craig and me running (literally running) late. Greg was there and when they asked him if the other people have any conditions or fears of heights that will stop them from doing the climb he replied with a no. Not even thinking of me….nice. Craig and I after our run up the hill we made it to our time and the group. We just didn’t get the debrief about something! Must not have been too important. We did our breath test and were back with the group.

As we started to walk up the arches I felt much better, if I looked down I saw a giant piece of metal and I could tell my brain it was the ground ahhh… much better. The Views were amazing and we picked a cracking day to climb. After a week of rain looking towards the weekend was not good. It all came good and it was amazing just to look out over the harbour at that height and not enclosed by glass. It was truly amazing. We reached the middle had our pictures taken with the group and individuals. Then came the decent back, I had no issues on the bridge at all and by the end I was loving it and could stay up there for ages.

It was a really good walk and I can totally recommend it for anyone, even those with height fears.

After the climb we met up with jarrod at the Australian hotel, had some wedges and a few beers to enjoy the climb we had just done. The night started with dinner and many many beers at the Lowenbrau at the rocks and then kicked on to a whole bunch of pubs. Was a good night and great way to celebrate a birthday.