Saturday, May 4, 2024

World's Shortest Cruise

 The first leg of our trip was from Toronto Islands City airport to Newark, New Jersey.  The islands airport is small, peaceful and scenic - nothing like the chaos of Toronto's main airport.  This is partly because it does not allow jet aircraft, only turboprops.  

To get to the airport, there is a newish tunnel from the mainland.  However, the old ferry has been kept in place so that vehicles (I think these are only service vehicles, not private cars) can get across the so-called Western Gap.  This gap is all of 121 metres wide making it perhaps the world's shortest cruise at about 90 seconds.  

Being 10:15 on a Saturday morning, it was rather quiet and we were the only foot passengers:





 

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