Sydney Harbour Bridge Walk - Independent Study

While traveling in Chicago and other states in the United States and in England, I have climbed many tall buildings and bridges. So when I was at home looking up interesting and fun things to do on my free days in Sydney, climbing the Sydney Harbour Bridge kept coming up. Do to all the rain that was constantly falling I did not want to climb to the top of the bridge, but I was fortunate enough to walk over the bridge and see some more amazing views of the city. The slight rain did not affect the way in which I walked over the bridge and walked as slow as I pleased. I felt as though I was walking through a secure prison because of all the barbed wire and tall fences that kept the walkers/joggers on the path that was provided for them. Having all the fencing and barbed wire made complete sense to me, they do not want people jumping or distracting the traffic flow of the cars traveling across the bridge. While walking there were security guards keeping an eye on all the people traveling by foot and I was wondering why there were so many security guards with all the twenty-four hour video recordings. The one security guard proceeded to tell me that citizens were walking across the bridge in honour of Sorry Day, the holiday in which people recognize the indigenous people who were taken away. It was a pleasure to see the many people walking and honouring those that they were related to. I found it extremely interesting that the people walking were all carrying different coloured feet. These feet represented a different aboriginal person that would be making the walk across the bridge to the other side. I was very grateful to see this parade of people and experienced the bridge walk that I had been looking forward to. It was great to see Sydney in a whole new light, from the other side of the water; everywhere I have gone to whilst here as been on the same side as the Sydney Opera House or by ferry, but I was not able to see the city skyline from this perspective so it was cool to see it this way.