From Tasmania to mainland Australia it's a breezy 40 odd minutes in a plane.
To take the ferry is 9 hours.
Why would one ever take the ferry you may ask?
Well - it means you can take the car, and it means you can spend 5 of those hours drinking (4 to sober up so you can drive off the ferry safely).
I took the ferry last night.
Here is is.
There are 3 of them - SPOT 1,2 & 3.
Spirit Of Tasmania what that stands for.
The terminal is about an hour from my home, in a dump of a town called Devonport.
I visit Devonport only for work, and they also have a better cinema than Launceston.
This part of Devonport looks like the New Jersey shoreline and the rest isn't much better.
Behold this spot.
Now I guess some of you European types may well be accustomed to taking boat rides of this kind.
Important employees looking busy.
No - it's not a cinema! It's where I tried to sleep unsuccessfully for 9 hours.
I did discover that against all expectations I didn't get sea sick.
Victorian coastline about 5 in the morning.
And my home city of Melbourne from sea.
I spent the day at the cinema.
Brothers Grimm, directed by my favorite film maker provided as much dissapointment as I was expecting.
Corpse Bride was terrific - I know a few of the bloggers I visit regularly contributed to the film so here's a big "hey ho, good work and all" to all of those very fine folks.
5 comments:
Was there noone else on that ferry but you? Have not seen Brothers Grimm yet but I hear it's pretty disappointing. Corpse Bride is beautiful to look at, even though I did expect a bit more storywise. Nevertheless, beautiful animation.
Ha!
Uli - I have a very dear blogging friend who tells me that I'm photographing beautiful places when there's no-one there.
Not that the ferry was a beautiful place.
There were in fact 400 people on the ferry that night.
Most of which were extraordinarily sexy European backpacker types who weren't interested in spending 9 hours hanging around a tit like me.
Brothers Grimm is unfortunately every thing I was hoping it wouldn't be.
It has an extremely lovely titles sequence, and a hilarious (and very Terry Gilliamy) moment involving throwing a cute little kitten into a giant blender.
Corpse Bride - indeed animated beautifully.
The bride herself moved occasionally as if she'd been hand drawn.
I'd perhaps question the need for the few songs.
Voice cast was very good too.
I like Paul Whitehouse very much - the Fast Show - that was him yes?
Congrats on not getting sea sick :)
Elliot...Was John Skibinsky roaming in the Melbourne mean streets?
No Oscar - but legendary Australian animator Dennis Tupikof was at the party I went to.
He's legendary for two reasons, but I'd prefer to wait until I post a picture before I explain why.
Cheers
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