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Toondah Harbour is a boat harbour at Cleveland in Redland City, Queensland, Australia. [1] It is in southern Moreton Bay. [2] It is the location of the Stradbroke Island Ferry Terminal used by water taxis and vehicular ferries to provide access to North Stradbroke Island.
A number of Queensland architects and planners reviewed the scheme at an Urban Design Workshop. The workshop Convenor said the group found the current Toondah scheme "too large, unfeasible and risky". [48] He said the workshop recommended smaller developments across the city linking Raby Bay with Cleveland's CBD and the ferry terminal. [49]
Over 20,000 jobs and $3.5 billion in annual economic activity are tied to the roughly 13 million tons of cargo that move through Cleveland Harbor each year. [5] [6] The Port of Cleveland is the only container port on the Great Lakes, with bi-weekly service between Cleveland and Antwerp on a service called the Cleveland-Europe Express. [7]
The auction concluded on January 19, 2022, with the ferry sold "as is" and "where is" to Paul Italia, Ron Castellano and Staten Island natives Colin Jost and Pete Davidson [9] for a final selling price of $280,100. [10] The new owners planned on converting the ferry into an entertainment venue at the cost of $34 million as of 2024. [11]
Wendy Park at Whiskey Island opened to the public in 2005, and includes sand volleyball courts, a prairie garden, and a restaurant-bar. [10] In 2014, Whiskey Island was purchased by the Cleveland Metroparks. [11] About 7,000 people visited Wendy Park in 2005. The number rose to more than 180,000 in 2010. [12]
Two automobile ferry routes currently depart from Colman Dock: the Seattle–Bainbridge Island ferry and the Seattle–Bremerton ferry. The terminal building can hold 1,900 people and the outdoor queueing area has space for 611 vehicles. [13] Two passenger-only ferry systems, the King County Water Taxi and Kitsap Fast Ferries, operate out of a ...
BC Ferries denied the allegations. [6] [7] [8] The ship was launched in 2015. [2] Baynes Sound Connector replaced the self-propelled MV Quinitsa on the Buckley Bay–Denman Island route in February 2016. [9] Upon entering service, the crossing with a length of 1,961.48 metres (6,435.3 ft), became the longest cable ferry crossing in the world. [10]
It was also the first high-speed auto ferry to see service on the Great Lakes, beating out the Spirit of Ontario I, which was beset by a series of last-minute delays, by one month. On August 21, 2005, the ferry rescued a man whose boat had capsized in the middle of Lake Michigan.