Ferries , Vehicular and Passenger Locationless, Locationless, Locationless
By Blingg on 24-Nov-10. Waypoint GA2792

Queenscliffe - Sorrento, Searoad Ferries, Port Phillip Bay, Victoria

This ferry carries both cars and passengers, Trekkers aboard the ferry


Logging for the Cacheopoly Game

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The Moreton escape car ferry leaving from Redland Bay, destination Russell Island.

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Wymah Ferry. Crossing the Murray River east of Albury NSW. Ferry #421842. Part of a 24 hr free ferry service for both vehicles and pedestrians

Vehicle Ferry Wallaroo to Lucky Bay (Cowell) SA. Spencer Gulf Sea Road. Usually one trip each way per day. About a two and a half trip. Much more relaxing than travelling via Port Augusta and if you time it right not a lot of time difference

Kangaroo Island Sea Link Ferry Cape Jervis to Pennshaw SA. A 40-45 min journey. Just enough time for a coffee.

Murray River Ferry at Wellington SA. A lot of water in the river but the big flood surge was yet to arrive

Mannum SA murray River Ferry. Two ferrys at this location operating simultaneously

STATION PIER PORT MELBOURNE VICTORIA

An excursion to Geelong for a few days caching involved a trip from Devonport to Melbourne and return on the TT Line Ferries Spirit of Tasmania 1 and Spirit of Tasmania 2. The attached photos are of my return on Spirit of Tasmania 2.

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We have recently spent a couple of days caching on Bruny Island and to get there we had to cross the D’Entrecasteaux Channel on the ferry. This ferry caters for both passengers and vehicles, including caravans and motorhomes.
We were lucky enough to cross both ways on the new ferry. Previously there was only one ferry, the Mirambeena. It is still operational but the new ferry [the Sealink] also runs now which means less waiting time at either end. The ferries cross in the middle of the channel each trip.
S43 7.738 E147 15.461.
Thanks.

This is the Ferry that took us across to Tasmania last year.
A memorable trip and a fantastic time in Tassie.
Thanks for bringing back the memories of our trip

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This is the Ferry that took us across to Tasmania last year.
A memorable trip and a fantastic time in Tassie.
Thanks for bringing back the memories of our trip

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We used this Ferry to cross over to North Stradbroke Is ,that is our Grandson on the bridge

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When we visited Tassie we took this car ferry to Bruny Island

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We traveled on this ferry to reach Russell Island in Moreton Bay QLD S 27 38.744 E 153 22.927 .
This ferry travels from Redand Bay to all of the southern Islands

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Caught the ferry Hunter from Stockton to Queens Wharf from north to south across the Hunter River to get to the Anzac Day march in city of Newcastle. Most of the passengers were also going to the march, some with bikes. There were about 40 of us on the 08:37am ferry from Stockton wharf with 4 uniformed guys from the Air Force also going to the march.
Thanks Blingg for another opportunity to feature ferries with this locationless! Especially grateful as being from Canberra there are very limited opportunities!
Cheers
MajuraHathi

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The Fatman barge allows vehicles to travel from north or south across the Pieman River. It is the only cable driven vehicular barge in Tasmania.

The crossing takes about ten minutes and the carrying capacity is 6.5 tonnes, with maximum vehicle measurements of 2.46 m wheel base and 2.50 m body width. The maximum combination wheel base is 9.0 m and the minimum caravan under body clearance 0.2 m.

Beautiful view over the Pieman River. Only crossing possible. Otherwise drive via Waratah-Tullah.

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Car ferry at Waikerie in South Australia. We have been on this ferry a few times as we head across the river and on to Gluepot (a Birdlife Australia Sanctuary) TFTC

Visiting family in Queensland and had to cross the Brisbane River.

Moggill Ferry from the Western approach on Moggill Ferry Road Riverview

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The Reef Cat, another Magnetic Island ferry. Built in Hobart by Incat. We spend a day on the island and enjoyed it immensely. TFTC

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Ferry near Morgan, SA. This was the first car ferry I had seen in years. TFTC blingg.
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Moreton Island vehicular ferry runs between Redcliffe and the island. The trip takes about 1.5 hours and they run daily.
TFTL BLINGG

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This is the Wisemans Ferry car ferry crossing the Hawkesbury River in NW Sydney. There are two ferries running together. This one allows pedestrians, whereas the other does not. In the photo you will see phlphotos waiting in his car.

Settlement Point Ferry - Port Macquarie NSW
Crossing the Hastings River ar Port Macquarie this is one of two ferries. This ferry always seems to be busy despite the small population of North Port....and some rough dirt roads.
TFTC blingg

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This is the ferry that runs from Nelson Ba across Port Stephens to Tea Gardens. It runs basically every two hours for a 45 minute trip each way.
On the one occasion that the geo family and I went on it, it was windy and rainy which didn't make for an especially pleasant trip and left geo-wife feeling a bit queezy. Tea Gardens is a nice spot though!
Thanks for the locationless cache!
Cheers
MajuraHathi

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#GA455 - 17:25; Sydney Ferry - Evonne Goolagong

I was in Sydney with the geohoney and after we had crossed doing the walk across the Harbour Bridge off our bucket list, she headed off for some retail therapy while I picked up a few caches. I was on my way back to the CBD via Circular Quay to meet up, when I remembered this cache. Grabbed a snap of the Evonne Goolagong on the way past. TFTC blingg

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This is one of Brisbane's CityCat passenger ferries heading to South Bank Pier.

Brisbane City Council operates a fleet of 20 CityCats and nine monohull City Ferries (including CityHoppers) along a network of 25 terminals stretching from The University of Queensland at St Lucia to Northshore at Hamilton.

The Ferry crossing the Daintree River in far north Qld.

Went for a memorable trip on the The City Hopper while on a recent visit to Brisbane - really enjoyable on a beautiful day ... Thornton to the City and the return trip was later that night with spectacular views of the city lights.

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Crossing the Pieman River at Corinna. It's like going to another country. Well, kind of. Exciting, though!

South Australia 2013 with Sol de Lune. With a bit of help I managed a raft of locationless caches on this trip. Lots of fun. 970

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Albida

GCA 687 - 659. Found this Ferry while walking around Melbourne today. Melbourne (Yarra River) to Williamstown. Can carry both people and bicycles !

TFTC !!

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Whitianga, Coromandel Peninsula, New Zealand.

Ferry that runs between Cook's Beach and Whitianga in New Zealand. Lovely way to get between the two places.

TFTC,
GammaPiSigma.

On a trip to the city on the Dawn Faser this morning, I snapped the Shane Gould as it went by on the return route to Parramatta. I also saw the Charlotte and the Marjorie Jackson - busy on the river today!

Not in Australia, but hopefully still acceptable.

This is the ferry that runs from the mainland to Center Island in Toronto Ontario, Canada

This is the Bruny Island ferry which goes from Kettering across to Bruny Island quite a few times a day. It is a double decker car ferry named Mirambeena

Crossed the mighty Murray at Wellington SA on the Quail today (and then crossed the lakes at Narrung on the Gull)

Tassie is a bit short on when it comes to ferries... BUT we do have a water taxi
It is always tied up at constitution dock in Hobart and takes people wherever they want to go.
I hope this satisfies the requirements - if not then happy for log to be deleted
Thanks for the cache blingg

May I recommend the FREE Brisbane River Hopper ferry?
I had been out finding GC cache 9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 (GC1Z33H) and realised I could cross the river fron the nearby ferry terminal, even better from 1 July 12 the price was FREE.
So I caught the 06:30 ferry and here it is at the Eagle St terminal at about 06:35.
Thanks for the Location less cache

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I know Sydney Ferries has already been done but that was the Manly Ferry
The Taronga Zoo Ferry is pictured here at Circular Quay.

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Today was day fourteen of our excursion out of Tasmania touring from Melbourne to Canberra and return via Gippsland. After staying in Lakes Entrance overnight we completed some more caching in the town before going to Sale where we spent most of the day. When we came through Sale a little over a week ago, it was raining and we had little time to hunt for caches but today, the weather was fine and we had about five hours to explore this lovely area. Late in the afternoon we drove to Traralgon picking up some more caches along the way. It was a very enjoyable day.

Whilst reading some of the tourism information in one of our motels we noticed reference to the Raymond Island Ferry. We checked on line and noted that this ferry had not been logged. So today we detoured from our path and went to Paynesville were we saw the ferry crossing the 400m or so of water between Raymond Island and the town. The ferry is free to pedestrians and $10 each way for cars. During the day there are two trips each hour each way, making the maximum wait 30 minutes. Two photos have been added to the Gallery - one identifying the ferry and the other showing cars being driven off. TFTC

Found this one today with pjmpjm, after our day of Trig hunting we were on the way back to Windsor and the Sackville Ferry Road took us of course to the ferry across the Hawkesbury River.
We got out of the car on the other side to get the photo of the ferry returning with more cars.

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Sackville Ferry
Sackville, NSW

This ferry crosses the Hawkesbury River, to the northwest of Sydney, taking vehicles from Sackville south to Ebenezer.

Lots of fun!

You have to stay in your car while you travel, though.

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The Waterhen is the ferry across the Murray River at Morgan in South Australia. We needed to cross on our way from Renmark to Clare on our mini caching road trip from Tassie.

This is the fabulous new ferry now operating between Mandorah and Cullen Bay as of 1st Jan 2012 ... Fast Ferries .... The route is currently being serviced by a catamaran previously used for whale-watching tours in Queensland while a custum built vessel is under construction...

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Burns Point Ferry which connects North Ballina to South Ballina.

This is a cable ferry but each of the cables seem to be hauled independently. I suppose gives it a certain amount of steering ability since the river has been flowing swiftly everytime we have been there.

This is also the site for a GC cache GC1MFW0 Ferry Ride - a tricky little cache which needs to be found in between the line up for the ferry.

Ferry to isle of the dead, Port Arthur

Half Moon Bay In Auckland.Near these coords.

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Some of the ferries in Auckland.

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This ferry travels from Cullen Bay - Darwin across the harbour to Mandorah everyday ... I am lucky enough to use this mode of transport to get to work ... lovely way to start and finish each day

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The Berowra Waters car ferry has already been logged but I didn't know that at the time. We were doing Calypso62's "Windy Waters" cache at the time so I grabbed the shots. Have done this crossing many, many times. It's a quick service as it turns around very fast and it's not a wide crossing.
Head to Wiseman's Ferry for a choice of two car ferries next time!

WanderingAus wandered by with the WanderingMrs (aka SWMBO) on day 138 of our annual Climatic Refugee trip. The WanderingMrs had determined through the wonders of the Information Superhighway that there was over a week of line dancing at the Wentworth Services Club, so after a couple of cold, wet and windy days in Horsham, and a night in Ouyen, we made our way to Curlwaa and booked in for five nights.

Once the line dancing competition was over the WanderingMrs was ready to head for home. After a night in Waikiri we were heading for Jamestown, and that meant crossing the mighty Murray River via the Cadell Ferry.

Over the years we've taken thde camper trailer onto plenty of ferries, including the Daintree River crossing, Spirit of Tasmania 2, , Spirit of Tasmania 3, and probably a dozen crossings of the Murray, but this cache didn't exist then. I must have had a premonition about this cache though, because on 28 June 2010 I took a photo of the Daintree River Ferry. No gpsr, no cacher, too early, so no claim for that one, so 've included it here for historical purposes.



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T4TC Blingg
Keith

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This ferry goes to Melville and Bathurst islands north of Darwin and is very popular in footy season time.

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Berowra Waters Vehicular Ferry.
We were returning home from an event and used this ferry. There is a cache (Windy Waters - GC31DN3) associated with this ferry also.

I can't remember how many times I have taken the ferry from Circular Quay to various destinations around the harbour and every time I forget to take the needed photo for this cache.
Well today I did remember, this is the Manly ferry 'Collaroy' arriving at quay number #2.

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The Townsville to Magnetic Island ferry. This one was the 0930 service on Monday 22 Aug 2011. Having lived in Towmsville for quite a few years, this was a regular outing.

Just good memories now though. TFTL

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Two for one! The photo shows the Torquay Ferry (a small passenger ferry) in Devonport on its way across the Mersey River. In the background is Spirit of Tasmania 2, one of the two ferries that transport passengers and vehicles across Bass Strait.

In mr sharnie's tribes younger days he used to have to catch the Torquay Ferry across the river to get to school when he missed the bus. Ha Ha!!!

Sydney Harbour Ferry
Farm Cove
Sydney, NSW

I'm not quite sure which Sydney Harbour ferry I caught in this photograph. I'm going to investigate and see if I can find out.

I also wanted an excuse to include the Sydney Opera House in a GCA log!

What I beautiful day to be at Farm Cove. (I actually took the photo from fairly near Mrs. Macquarie's Chair . . . )

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In July 2008 we spent a month criss crossing Cape York. These photos are of the Jardine Ferry Crossing - that's our Patrol featured.

City cats on the Brisbane River, this one is near the Hawthorne Ferry terminal.

Hi Blingg
These photographs were taken at Noosa, where the ferry crosses the Noosa River taking vehicles to the North Shore and the beach along which you can travel to Fraser Island etc.
We were off for a days surf fishing on the seventeenth of December 2005 along the beach.
I was surprised to see speed limits along the beach and two cop cars with speed traps in the dunes.
Oh, the fishing, we had more fun digging up pippis.
Some of the other sites on the beach were more entertaining too!
Wasn't geocaching back in those days but now I know what it's like, I wish I had been.
Still, we had a great day and enjoyed crossing the Noosa River twice on the ferry.
TFTC and Cheers; OldSaint.

A picture of the Peppermint Bay Ferry that takes people to the Peppermint Bay resort at Kettering and behind that the smaller Mona Ferry that takes you to the Mona Art Exhibition at Morilla Estate in Hobart. Taken at the wharf at the end of Murray St, Salamanca.

Going from the Daintree side of the Daintree River to Cape Tribulation and onwards to Cooktown driving along the road through the Heritage Listed National park you need to use this vehicle ferry. Return fare is $21.00 or $11.00 single journey. We were lucky on the 2nd of May 2011 as this was the last day of free travel put in place by the Government to encourage tourists to the area after all the rain and Cyclone Yassi. This Area had over meters of rain from December to the end of March 2011.

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This is on the Waikerie ferry across the Murray 15 mins after I didn't take the Cadell ferry.

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Waiting for the ferry across the Murray at Cadell. Not far from the Water, water, everywhere cache.Didn't get this ferry as I headed back to the Morgan rd, but then had to use the ferry at Waikerie anyway.

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Kangaroo Island ferry from Cape Jervis to Penneshaw. It's about 45 minutes in fair weather and can be a lot worse in foul...
Went there for Easter Holidays, no -one else has logged it yet, I'm amazed!
Coordinates are not exact for the photo, but were taken as we pulled in to Penneshaw.

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The popular Williamstown Ferry operates the tourist strip from Southgate to Williamstown.

It takes a route along the Yarra River under the WestGate Bridge past Scienceworks and Pier 35.

Passenger only.

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A privately owned ferry that connects a farm on Pig Island on the Shoalhaven River with the mainland.

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I was a bit surprised when I worked out that the Sydney Ferries had not been logged for this cache (except for a quick mention in the intro.) and specifically one of the most famous passenger ferries in Australia, the Manly Ferry. To rectify this, I waited for my next trip to Sydney and specifically took the classic journey across the harbour and snapped the attached photo (somewhere in the middle!)

I caught the Queenscliffe over to Manly and the Collaroy back again, I'm not sure which ferry is in the photo (the iPhone camera is not that good!). Thanks for the fun and an excuse to enjoy this fine journey.

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My dad and I did a trip up to Cape York on the Old Telegraph Track. In August 2004 we crossed the Jardine River on the Cape York Jardine River Ferry.

Crossing the Murray River at Talem Bend.

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This photo was taken on 12th January 2011 as Brisbane was bracing itself for the worst flood we have seen in years. In the photo you can see part of the City Cat fleet. Unfortunately we won't be seeing the Cats on the river for a while as most of the ferry pontoons were damaged by the raging flood waters.

This photo was taken on 1 Dec 2009, and shows my car on the Fat Man Punt which crosses the Pieman River at Corinna in North Western Tasmania. I selected this photo as it shows the dinghy which was actually driving the punt across the river at the time. I certainly remember this day very well, as only a short while later my car and trailer were written off in a horrible accident with a mining truck

On the top deck of the Bruny Island ferry that travels from Kettering to Bruny Island in Southern Tasmania. Half way between Bruny and Kettering.

Dang it! Thursday I was standing at the ferry terminal at Mowbray Park East Brisbane after finding "Eclipsed - Surf's Up" wondering if I could find a locationless while I was in the area...

This is the Queenscliff to Sorrento Ferry that crosses Port Philip Bay in Victoria. It is both a vehicular and passenger ferry. The photo was taken at Queenscliff on the Western side of the bay. This area is near the most southern part of the bay and is close to the famous "Rip" where cargo ships enter the bay. The Ferry leaves every hour on the hour between 7am and 6pm every day of the year in all weather. The crossing takes 30 to 40 mins.

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The Comerong Island Ferry in the Shoalhaven allows residents & visitors access to the island. Non-Island residents pay $5 return.

The ferry crosses the Berry Canal which links the Shoalhaven & Crookhaven Rivers. This canal was the first canal built in Australia. An information sign nearby states: "On 21 June 1822 Alexander Berry attempted to land the dinghy from his 15 ton cutter the "Blanch" at Shoalhaven Heads. Two men drowned including Thomas Davidson, who together with Berry & Hamilton Hume had previously ascended Pigeon House Mountain.

Berry then sailed up the Crookhaven River but was stopped by a sand spit from entering the Shoalhaven River. Four days later Hamilton Hume & three others were left at the isthmus to cut a passage using only hand tools. The canal, 20 yards long, took 12 days to complete. Erosion & river flows have widened & deepened the canal & today it is the natural passage to the sea of the Shoalhaven River".

I have previously hidden a cache on the island's break wall (GA2536- Comerong).

I enjoyed a long talk with the ferry man who asked about geocaching (I have a sticker on my door). He advised there is another ferry nearby that I was unaware of so may track it down.

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All aboard!!

Made the trek to the Birdsville Track to take the Coopers Creek ferry.

The last time this one was operating was 20 years ago. It went out of service again in February 2011.

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Wisemans Ferry over the Hawkesbury River near Sydney in NSW. I am in the picture in the reflection of the side mirror of the car.

I remember taking photos of the ferry between Mortlake and Putney for a waymark I didn't get around to creating. Anyway, looked through my photos and found it - along with the ol' GeoGolf.

There are generally faster ways to get from one side to the other, but if the timing is right, it's well worth the trip - which is free.

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Boarding the "Spirt of Tasmania II" at Melbourne bound for Devonport.