Show ferry on wheels one of the strangest ferries m in the world is that which runs be tween bigbury bilbury Big bury devon and burgh island a quarter of a mile ol oft the mainland the ferry look loola like the skeleton of an perched on high stilts the front stilts are connected to an ade 1 joining two wheels and the rear stilts to a 24 horse power plant which drives a caterpillar wheel arrangement this contraption cannot flom and the wheels run along the sei bed for the entire distance it has been very carefully designed however for the deck on which the passengers stand is sufficiently raised to keep them dry during the highest tide |