The Sea Cliff Bridge is one of only seven off-shore parallel to coast bridges in the world.
What a lovely Day. Linzi was here, the rain kept away as did the storms - in fact the prediction was that Tuesday would be the only day without a storm and so it proved to be. Two cars with drivers Pippa and Donna. Heading South we arrived unhindered at our destination at Coalcliff.
Our walk started in pretty Leader Park a nice surprise due to a small wooded and beautiful little gully with its bridge over a stream with a waterfall . The stream with good sized shiny boulders led down to a little beach which we could see from the vantage point on the bridge. Water Monitors lazed on the rocks below.
It was not difficult to find our way towards the Sea Cliff Bridge where almost right away our expectations were exceeded as stunning views and great rocky platforms with fringing waves presented themselves while the heights of the coals cliffs loomed on one side. Ahead we could see the great swathes of engineered bridge construction all grey and white and cleanly commanding space above rocks but close to cliff faces.
From Coalcliff to Clifton we went. On reaching Clifton we found parks on either side of the road. A nondescript tiny building turned out to be a toilet facility, which, surprise, surprise, contained electronic wonders of piped music, buttons galore to open and to close doors, buttons to shoot out lengths of toilet paper, hand washing sensors to notify toilet flushing which obediently flushed. Seemed somewhat out of place in that quiet rural area.
We retraced our steps back again along the Bridge to to Coalcliff where we settled into our cars to drive this time, across the Bridge. This of course equalled the third crossing of the morning. The destination was lunch at Austinmer so starting at Coalclioff we passed through all the suburbs/villages along the way - Clifton, Scarborough, Wombarra, Coalbrook before arriving at Austinmer to stop at AustinmerBeach Cafe for, let’s see, two iced coffees with Everything - one iced coffee, no ice, no cream - three Detoxes with ginger and unusually for Moira No coffee nor a little warm milk on the side.
After lunch at Austinmer we needed to cross that Bridge once more to get home. Oi, Oi, our FOURTH Bridge crossing. Been there, done that we can satisfactorily say! Four times in one day.
En route home though we stopped at Stanwell Tops for the sky-diving, para gliding spectacle. Here we met up with Judy Gill which was such an added bonus. Judy informed us that the wind was excellent which accounted for many people gathered on the high point of Bald Head. The Sky diving kites were magnificent as they soared against the backdrop of the Sea Cliff Bridge in the distance.
At Bald Head we indulged in extra ice creams and Affogato as we watched the kites in the sky.
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How lovely it was to have Linzi with us again. Time flew but we managed to hear bits of Linzi’s exciting trips abroad during her ’Gap Year’. I think we all were able to catch up between the adventures of the day.
Kate’s trip to Canada though remains a mystery to me at least - next time there may be more time to hear about some of that.
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