Great photo of us with the Harbour Bridge in the background

It was finally approaching midnight, so we all woke up a bit, drank a bit more and got our cameras ready for the big moment. A countdown on a projector against the Harbour Bridge columns started…10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 chanted the millions of people sat watching from all the view points around Sydney, and BANG, the spectacle began. It was relentless for a good 15 minutes, firing off the arc of the bridge, from next to the bridge, off barges along the water, off the top of the high rise buildings in the city, absolutely awesome. No matter how old you were, you couldn’t help but gasp with delight at this pyrotechnics extravaganza.

The bridge has a huge symbol lit up on it every year, last year was a heart to symbolise love and peace due to the race riots that year. This time it was the 75th anniversary of the Harbour Bridge being constructed, and so a huge diamond sparkled from the centre of the bridge, along with a coat-hanger which is what Sydneysiders affectionately call the bridge as it looks like one!