STEVEN NAISMITH and Steven Whittaker took time out of their day off today to climb the Sydney Tower - and RangersTV.tv were with them all the way!

The pair scaled the 1,001-foot structure - the second-tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere - and took the SPL trophy along with them for good measure.

As you can see from this superb picture by snapper Kirk O'Rourke, the two players had fantastic views looking out on to the Harbour Bridge and the Sydney Opera House.

You can see a feature on their climb on tonight's edition of Blues News, which will be available on demand from 7pm.

Naismith said: "The tower is one of the iconic landmarks in the city and while we're here to train and play, coming here is a nice wee perk when we've some free time.

"We were keen to come and have a look at the great views up here and they really didn't disappoint us.

"The message to the squad when we came to Australia was that if we put enough effort in at training and the games were good, we could do things like this on our days off.

"We've come halfway around the world and that was a great incentive for us. The majority of the boys work hard anyway but this is a nice bonus for us."

The Sydney Tower wasn't the first landmark Naismith and Whittaker visited in the city this week.

They were also in a group of seven players - along with David Weir, Neil Alexander, Kirk Broadfoot, Lee McCulloch and Steven Davis - that climbed the Harbour Bridge.

Whittaker added: "When you're so far away from home, these are the sorts of things you like to do when you've got time off from training.

"It has been a great experience to come up the tower and stand over the city, especially after climbing the bridge as well.

"We got an afternoon off on Monday so a few of us went right up to the peak and that was a fantastic thing to do too."

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