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[img]http://tinyurl.com/r9wtr2[/img]IcedogLand...its a dog's life; Sutherland Shire, God's County in God's Country. Where I'm fortunate enough to live and ride.
Topic Started: Sunday, 10. August 2008, 19:26 (487 Views)
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Sutherland Shire, God's County in God's Country. Where I'm fortunate enough to live and ride.

Sutherland Shire is a group of suburbs situated about 25km south of Sydney.

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It is bordered to the north by George's River,

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to the east by the Pacific Ocean, to the west by the Holsworthy Artillery Range, and to the south by the Royal National Park.

A beautiful estuary, Port Hacking, lies in the heart of the Shire. Port Hacking was named after Henry Hacking (1750-1831), a quartermaster on Governor Phillip’s HMS Sirius, part of the First Fleet which initiated the European colonisation of Australia.

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I almost live on its shores, these photos are only a couple of minutes from my home

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Port Hacking contains a small marine park with a 20 metre rockface drop off which is a favourite shore dive for scuba divers. Well worth the scramble down to the water with your dive gear.

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Other excellent dive sites can be found around Kurnell, the landing place of James Cook, English "discoverer" of Australia

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Time I guess for a short historical aside:-

In 1768 Lieutenant James Cook (he became Captain on his return to England) undertook a scientific voyage taking a group of scientists to observe the Transit of Venus at Tahiti. In 1716 Edmund Halley had predicted that a Transit of Venus might occur in 1769, and that it would not be seen again until 1874. By 1767 the Royal Society and the Admiralty were planning to send expeditions to observe and record the transit. In March 1768 the Secretary of the Admiralty purchased a Bark renamed the Endeavour. James Cook was selected to take the scientific group to Tahiti. Cook sailed with a second, secret set of instructions - to search for the great Southern Continent believed to be positioned somewhere in the vicinity of latitudes 35 and 40 degrees south.

After leaving Tahiti, James Cook sailed the Endeavour in a westerly direction from New Zealand and on 19th April land was sighted. This was the continent of Australia (or New Holland as it was called at the time). Cook named the point of land Cape Hicks after Lieutenant Hicks who first saw it.

After an unsuccessful attempt to land on the seashore near present day Bulli, the Endeavour sailed along the coastline of the present day Sutherland Shire. At daylight on Saturday 28th April, 1770 the Endeavour sailed into the bay known by the Aborigines as Kamay, which Cook named Stingray Harbour, and is now known as Botany Bay. The Endeavour came to anchor opposite an Aboriginal camp on the southern shore of the Bay. The Aborigines knew this area as Gwea. Europeans called it Kurnell.

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Back to the scenery, to the east of the Shire we find Kurnell mentioned above and Cronulla

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Cronulla, in the Sutherland Shire on Sydney’s southern coast, is the only Sydney beach that can be reached by train, meaning you can visit without headache of finding a carpark. North Cronulla beach, Elouera and Wanda beaches further along this stretch of sand are popular surfing destinations.

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The most westerly road in the Shire is Heathcote Road. This is a 2 lane blacktop running down to and up from the Woronora River through cuttings and tree-lined terrain and along the heath beside the army artillery range. I travel this road every day on the way to and from work. Its a beautiful little ride/drive except when an accident occurs - being only 2 lanes for most of its length it easily becomes a parking lot.

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Also to the west of the Shire is Australia's only nuclear reactor at ANSTOs research facility at Lucas Heights. The original reactor has recently been replaced with a brand new one.

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The Royal National Park occupies much of the southern section of the Shire. This park is a large chunk of relatively untouched native forest and heath. A picturesque road runs through the park heading south. It crosses the Hacking River at Audley Weir and in times of heavy rain this road is often closed.

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Climbing out of the river valley to the south we ride along the top of a ridge. This road provides access to the port-side suburbs of Maianbar

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and Bundeena which is also serviced from Cronulla by a passenger ferry.

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Further along the road and to the east are a number of secluded beaches mostly without road access

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The road drops down and runs through some temperate rainforest

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before finally leaving the Shire and crossing the new Seacliff Bridge - a cantilevered concrete road deck piered over the Pacific Ocean replacing a dangerous kilometre of road that was cut into the cliff and subject to blockage by rockfalls

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The Sea Cliff Bridge on the southern borders of the Shire is an engineering showcase and deserves a little post of its own.

Opened on December 11, 2005 the bridge took about 15 months to construct at a total cost of AU$52M.

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The new Sea Cliff Bridge has two 3.3 metre-wide lanes with 1.2 metre-wide shoulders. A separate footpath has been built next to the traffic lanes on the eastern (seaward) side. The two-lane bridge spans the southern amphitheatre and the middle headland.

Sea Cliff Bridge is made up of two sections using different construction techniques. A balanced cantilever section (similar to the Mooney Mooney and Pheasants Nest bridges) extends from the existing road at the southern headland and curves to join an incrementally launched section (similar to the Woronora Bridge). This joins the existing road at the middle headland.

The bridge, to the east of the existing road, provides a long-term solution for all road users. The project also includes various geotechnical and stabilisation works along the cliff line.

The balanced cantilever section:
Using the cantilevering method, the superstructure of bridge is built from the piers by means of cantilevered formwork. The structure advances (symmetrically) from a short stub on top of each pier in segments of about 3 m to 5 m length to the mid span or to an abutment. Using this technique allowed building out over the sea without the need for supporting formwork.

Bridge features include:
Curved, 455 metre long balanced cantilever bridge along the coastline.
Built up to 45 metres to the east of the existing road to bypass the unstable cliff line and rock falls.
Road level 41 metres above the sea level at its highest point.
Four piers and five spans – first and last 70 metres long with central spans 105 metres long.

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The incrementally launched section:
The incremental launching method consists of casting 15 metre to 30 metre long sections of the bridge deck at the northern bridge abutment. The completed section was then pushed out across the piers and the next section was then cast onto it. The bridge deck slowly advanced south with the first section having been pushed the full length of the bridge.

Features of bridge include:
Multiple span curved 210 metre long bridge bypassing the middle headland to join the balanced cantilever bridge.
Built 25 metres east of the existing road.
Seven piers and seven spans, the first 24 metres and the others 31 metres long

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Grand Pacific Drive is a new tourist drive hugging the coast from the Royal National Park to Wollongong. The 70-kilometre drive winds through some of the state's most spectacular scenery - ocean panoramas, surf beaches, heathland, rainforest and coastal villages beneath the towering cliffs of the Illawarra Escarpment - and across the route's crowning glory, the new Sea Cliff Bridge.

An impressive sight and an engineering marvel, the $49-million bridge follows the curve of the coastline below the cliffs and straddles the sea and rock shelves. It replaces a dodgy section of Lawrence Hargrave Drive that wound around the base of the cliff." - SMH, Oct 29, 2007


The bridge has also featured in a few television commercials including one for a collaboration between Shell and Ferrari. It (briefly) features a 1967 Formula 1 Ferrari 312 zooming through the S-curves on the Sea Cliff Bridge.

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Wwwwrrrroooooowwwrrrrrrr! Er, I mean uhhh, Very nice place to live and ride!:)
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