Burnie is the largest port on the northwest coast of Tasmania, a town of 20,000. Our pier was right next to a very large pile of wood chips. A volunteer helping with the shuttle buses said is one of only two places in the world where you tie up next to wood chips. (She thinks the other is in Norway.)
We got to sit and watch the entire operation, including chipper trucks coming in and going onto a ramp which they elevate to empty the load.
First the truck comes through the gate, then they tip it up -- this is a double load
Once he starts discharging, the conveyors send it to the central area and it is dropped onot the pile.
Then the buldozer (with a special chip bucket) comes and smooths out the pile.
If we were a chip ship, the movable conveyor belt would load the chips directly into the holds.
not much room between the conveyor
and the ship.
On the next pier were cargo ships and a roll on/roll off ship kind of like Totem or Matson. They were loading containers onto trailers to move aboard, and we even saw truckloads of sheep.
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| TazRail, containers, and roll on cargo |
No, we did not see any Tasmanian devils… some from the ship took the tour to a wildlife rehab center, but I don’t know if they saw any.
We went into town to expore a bit -- visiting the local history museum.
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| outhouse??? |
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