Bart Bear's Blog

If you want to drive along the coast below Melbourne, you need to get across the entrance to Port Phillip Bay. Unless your car can swim this means that you need the help of this special boat that opens up at both ends and carries your car across. It is a huge boat. The main deck is big enough for buses and semis to drive on; our car looked tiny in there. We took the car across from Sorrento to Queenscliffe. Once Mum had parked the car we went up onto the top deck and watched ships, dolphins and interesting houses (on shore) during our half-hour trip across the heads. It was a calm day so the trip was smooth. Sometimes when the wind and tide are just right (or maybe just wrong) it gets really rough as the ferry goes across near to the Rip. Actually, we enjoyed the trip so much that we went back to the Queenscliffe wharf the next day, left the car there and just rode the ferry across to Sorrento and back again. I think it is great to watch the front end open up and swallow cars and then, at the other side of the bay, open at the back end and let them all drive out again.

Labels: boats, Victoria