Live local weather & visitor/community information for the Sea Cliff Bridge area. Navigate to the Bridge from anywhere
THE BRIDGE
This award-winning
and inspirational Bridge forms part of the Grand Pacific
Drive and is located
on scenic Lawrence Hargrave Drive, 60
kilometres south from central Sydney. It was opened
on December 11,
2005, at a total cost of A$52 million. The Bridge provides road, pedestrian
and
cycleway access it's entire length (665 metres) and spectacular views. Like the
Bridge, Grand
Pacific Drive never loses sight of the sea. It hugs the coast between
the high battlements of the Illawarra Escarpment, looming like
the
great wall of a lost world, and the vastness of the Tasman
Sea, an
ocean view so wide you can see the curve of the Earth. Looking south,
the coast is scalloped with bays, all the way to Wollongong
and beyond. More
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Why was it constructed? In August 2003, a large embankment slip indefinitely closed Lawrence Hargrave Drive between Coalcliff and Clifton, a stretch of road area notorious for rock falls and closures. But community protest at this closure was fierce, and a permanent fix was demanded from the NSW Government. Over two years later, Sea Cliff Bridge provided that fix, and the road reopened, finally Bridging the Cliff and the Sea and Community. More »
Why was it constructed? In August 2003, a large embankment slip indefinitely closed Lawrence Hargrave Drive between Coalcliff and Clifton, a stretch of road area notorious for rock falls and closures. But community protest at this closure was fierce, and a permanent fix was demanded from the NSW Government. Over two years later, Sea Cliff Bridge provided that fix, and the road reopened, finally Bridging the Cliff and the Sea and Community. More »
LOCAL
WEATHER
The Illawarra
Escarpment encourages high
rainfall and stormy weather in the
area from time to time. Live Weather and Apparent Temperature readings are streamed to
this website from a Citizen Weather Station at Wombarra, 2.1. kms to the south of the Bridge every 20
seconds between 8am and 9pm. The closest official
weather station (BOM) is at Bellambi, (15 kms south). Note:
the nearest reference point on
the local rain radar
is Stanwell Park, and on the lightning
tracker is immediately south of Sydney
(SYD).
Actual wind
gusts on the Bridge may be
higher at times than that
measured at Wombarra. This is due to the exposure
of
the Bridge to the open sea.
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BRIDGE PHOTOGRAPHY
The Bridge and it's surrounding environment inspires the
best of both
amateur and professional photographers..... More on FLICKR, Picasa Web, Panoramio, or Google Image Search.
PRESS FOCUS AND BLOGS
Many articles have been, and continue to be, written about Sea Cliff
Bridge and
the area by the Press and in community Blog
discussions:
- "Reinvented Wollongong enjoys hotel boom" (Travel BlackBoard)
- "Discover the Nearer South Coast Beaches" (Larry's Australia / NZ Travel Blog)
- "Get the motor running" (SMH - Travel)
- "Coast with the most" (The Age)
- "Illawarra Tourism Going Gangbusters" (Illawarra Mercury)
- "Where in the World is Windang?" (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
- "Reinvented Wollongong Enjoys Tourism Wave" (e-Travel Blackboard)
- "How do you spell Wollongong?" (Jaunted)
- "Signs to lure overseas visitors" (South Coast Register)
- "Celebrity adventurer Charley Boorman hits the Gong" (Illawarra Mercury)
- "Charley Boorman cruises Illawarra's 'beautiful' coastline" (Illawarra Mercury)
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