Access to the Ferry

While in Kingswear this week I spotted a house with this novel access from the road above it to the house (almost all the houses are built into cliffs).

Must have been hideously expensive. One can only assume the house owners are disabled, or incredibly lazy.

Here's someone else's attempt....

That's more my style...

On the car ferry across the River Dart yesterday, which is nothing more sophisticated than a pontoon with a tug tied to it, we wondered if the tug failed we'd be swept out to sea on an automotive equivalent of the Kon-Tiki Expedition - Kar-Tiki. A couple of cars had dogs, so we'd be OK for food for a while before we started on the White Van Man...