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            20050415_2313_10D-70 Power of water

April 2005 and we were on a road trip (just over 1,000km one way) to Auckland, where I would attend the 2005 PSNZ National Photographic Convention.  

We over-nighted in Picton and we booked on the 11:45am sailing of The Lynx, a INCAT catamaran fast ferry (INCAT 046) across Cook Strait between the South Island and the North Island.  I wanted to do the fast ferry (about an hour quicker than the conventional tubs), so had specifically booked this crossing.  Friends from my camera club were booked on the next sailing a few hours later, also wanting to experience the fast ferry.

It was a calm crossing and as we were nearing the dock in Wellington, staff started to remove ancillary stuff from the passenger lounge.  Strange I thought, maybe a rough return crossing coming up.  

A few days later in Auckland I caught up with my friends and asked about their fast ferry crossing.  “There was none.  It has been sold.  We were rebooked on a conventional ferry.”  They asked what ferry I had been transferred to, and I replied that just six hours before their booking I was on The Lynx.  I now knew why the stuff was being removed from the lounge!

Twelve-thirteen years earlier we (the family) had been returning from another road trip to Auckand and we were on a conventional Cook Strait ferry as we saw Condor 10 (The Lynx) operating one of it’s first two crossings to get certification for the service.  

So I had seen the first (or second) fast ferry crossing sans passengers, and had been on the last passenger operation of a Cook Strait fast ferry.

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Taken in: New Zealand / Marlborough / Otanerau (show map)

Taken on: April 15, 2005

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Camera: Canon EOS 10D, f/6.3, 1/800 sec, 70mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

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