Thursday, Jan 25, 2007 at 08:55
Hi Peter,
I've done the trip quite a few times on various vessels.
The best overnight was on the previous boats which were slower than the current ones, and a cabin or bunk was the only way. Here you could go to the bar till say 12, get some sleep till 8, have a shower and breakfast and still get to your car without rush.
I did the overnight with reserved
seat on the current boat once, and I'll never do it again.
The room containing the seats is like a big aircraft, except that people are sprawled everywhere including (usually) on your
seat or on the floor where you want to have your feet. The traffic in and out of the room is constant all night, and the snoring and other noises are so bad that you'll be lucky to get any sleep.
The bar was not open all night. (If it was, you'd never be able to drive off the boat.)
I found the day trip to be much better, although the last 3 or 4 hours drag somewhat.
For your trip I would hope that the night is not too cold, take a sleeping bag and pillow with you, and find a relatively quiet spot on the top decks (they're under cover) and sleep there, rather than in the zoo room. When traveling solo, it's hard to hold on to a
good spot on the sofas, cause as soon as you take a pit stop, your spot is gone.
Take that thick book you've been wanting to read - it'll help to pass the time.
Don't take fruit you can't eat on the crossing - you'll be quarantine checked leaving
the wharf area.
Oh, and when you are driving round Tassie, don't make the mistake many mainlanders make - over here, when a highway advisory
sign says 55k, we all take it at 95k no worries. In Tassie, it means 55k.
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