Bart Bear's Blog

We went for a boat ride when we visited the Gold Coast. Mum was excited by all the mansions along the canals. Dad kept pointing out the way that they would slip into the water if their retaining walls gave way (Dad is like that). What I liked was all the different sorts of boats that we saw. There were loads of speedboats, fishing boats, ferries of all sizes, tugboats and some special workboats. In this picture there is a small white ferry and two red dredges. Dredges are boats that slurp up the mud and sand from the bottom of rivers and lakes and spit them out wherever you need it. Lots of the islands in the rivers behind the Gold Coast and the Broadwater have been made or built up with soil these dredges got from the bottom while they were digging the navigation channels deeper. I think it would be fun to drive a dredge. Just imagine the mess you could make.

Labels: boats, Gold Coast, Queensland