Lamb Island, along with three neighbouring islands, is serviced by modern twin-hull ‘waterbuses’ which run more-or-less half-hourly during the day and hourly at night, and the trip takes as little as twenty minutes. The waterbuses are roomy, air-conditioned, and have special areas for passenger ‘freight’. And there’s an unusual feature that non-islanders notice about
these trips – we islanders know the drivers and deckhands, and we actually
thank them when we disembark. Especially when we’re arriving back on our home island, because most of us are a lot happier about getting home from the mainland than we were heading for it. In fact, when islanders board at Redland Bay for the trip home, you can almost feel the collective relief to be leaving the hassle and traffic to get back to peace and quiet.
