Sea Cliff Bridge

This guide to the Sea Cliff Bridge north of Wollongong follows the coastal community along Lawrence Hargrave Drive after 2002, when constant rockfalls from the cliffs above forced a boom gate to close the only road out after as little as twenty-five millimetres of rain. It traces the road's full closure in 2003, the two and a half years that split the community in two, and the twenty-six alternatives engineers weighed before settling on building out over the water instead of fighting the cliff. Even the region's biggest cycling event, the Sydney to Gong ride, had to turn its riders around short of the gap.