Klanky
Registered user
If you're wandering up or down the A9 North of Inverness and want an interesting little detour, take the Nigg ferry.
It's at the end of a nice country lane run (if you take the back road) and gives you the chance to visit nice little places like Portmahomack, Balintore, Cromarty and Fortrose.
The ferry only carries two cars (or four motorbikes) and is ...er...in need of some TLC....
You drive onto the landing craft-style front end and then the bikes are turned around on a hydraulic turntable so you're pointing in the right direction at the other end.
Unfortunately, I think the turntable bearings sound like they've not been greased since the Normandy landings...in fact it sounds very much like the noise you'd get if you attached a rope to a GS and dragged it sideways up a cobbled street behind a truck....and the hull appears to be a collection of holes held together with rust......
Brilliant fun and only a fiver per bike. Goes every half-hour ish.
Photie taken on it yesterday.
It's at the end of a nice country lane run (if you take the back road) and gives you the chance to visit nice little places like Portmahomack, Balintore, Cromarty and Fortrose.
The ferry only carries two cars (or four motorbikes) and is ...er...in need of some TLC....
You drive onto the landing craft-style front end and then the bikes are turned around on a hydraulic turntable so you're pointing in the right direction at the other end.
Unfortunately, I think the turntable bearings sound like they've not been greased since the Normandy landings...in fact it sounds very much like the noise you'd get if you attached a rope to a GS and dragged it sideways up a cobbled street behind a truck....and the hull appears to be a collection of holes held together with rust......
Brilliant fun and only a fiver per bike. Goes every half-hour ish.
Photie taken on it yesterday.
