Day 43: Over and Under the Mersey!!! :)

I am amazed at how we manage to keep finding interesting stuff to do, hehehe.. On Sunday we joined a special event that enabled us to visit the mersey tunnel and take a ferry ride over River Mersey for only 5 pounds :) It was actually a charitable event, so getting a deal and doing some good at the same time suits me just fine.. :D

It was raining and raining the whole morning, and very luckily, we had chosen the latest walk out of 5 choices, which was 1.30pm, and the sky was like this when we arrived:

lucky :)

We arrived early and were told to go to the back of the line to await the start of our walk, and as usual, people here turned out in full force~ The line was so so long...

I zoomed in so you can see the start sign..

See how far back we actually are?! Can you still spot the 'start' sign? and there were even more people behind us.. Incredible~ (click pic to enlarge)

Wristbands~

Oh ya, the starting point ws the street in front of the world museum that I had been to earlier in the week.. William Brown Street~

While we were waiting for 1.30pm, there was some entertainment, with people performing on the stage upfront, there was a ventriloquist act as well (you know, where a guy holds a dummy and makes it speak? Except this time the 'dummy' was a real person wearing an eerie mask with a mouth that moved..) and there was a fake king and fake queen to greet us participants.. haha..

giant and scary looking in my opinion.. :S

they had trouble coming down the stairs, hehe..

This is apparently a TV celebrity (Keith Chegwin), but I dunno who he is, sorry...

and the countdown begins- I managed to take a picture when '1' was showing on the screen :)
and we were off!

Crossing the road..

Interesting band of drummers..

At the tunnel entrance..

Almost there~

and we are in!

I'd never actually walked inside a tunnel this huge before, and it was so long that we took almost an hour to walk from one end to the other, great exercise man~ We had been warned that it would be dark and cold inside, but at the end of the walk we were all sweating, haha... Its amazing how many of the participants were quite (how should i say this..) old? They are really healthy here i must say.. Along the way, there were signs telling us what buildings or streets were overhead.. Very interesting..

Halfway across, with the river above us.. How cool is that!

The boundary between the 2 sides of the river..

and I dunno what this meant but it was weird seeing it in there, haha..

After more or less 55 minutes of walking, finally see some light!

Aaah.. I smell success...

Yay, got to walk in a tunnel that is usually only accessible by cars, haha...
Something special..

I have great stamina!! *proud*

On our way to collect our commemorative 75th Anniversary medals :)
Cam see part of the carnival behind..

Victory!

Carnival pics:

Ooo... giant stuffed toys..

There were tents where we could watch performances, and I especially loved the performance by the St Helen's Youth Brass band..

Thats the band i was talking about, you have to watch the videos..


A song from The Great Escape, i think thats wat the conductor said..


Famous song from Breakfast at Tiffany's~


Last song..

There was also a tent where there were circus acts..

Ringmaster with a really scary whip that he kept flicking everywhere..


Titanic Twins, LOL..

Really cute kids drum troupe..

Vintage car show..


Cross-section of the crowd..

After having had enough of the carnival, we had to take a shuttle bus to the ferry terminal for our ride back across the river..

Waiting in line..

Cute bus that I didnt get to ride on :(

Aptly named 'Tunnel Road'

Ferry Terminal~

me

us

Another one to add to my collection~ :)

Another band to entertain us while waiting for our ferry~
Spot the Liverpool Cathedral!

Nice view.. Can see both cathedrals and Echo Arena..

Going to board our ferry~

Before boarding..

Our ferry was called Royal Iris :)

The following pics are mostly the view from the ferry.. All i really remember is that the wind was very strong and I felt kind of cold, and it took a long time before it started moving >.<

Finally got a picture of the 3 graces

View above..

A fellow ferry..

Lots of gulls.. flying close to our heads.. :S

and then we were on land again.. back at our side of the river.. I was really tired by then, but still had another 20-25 minute walk back..

hahaha.. incredibly, you can see my reflection on the building..

Another penny souvenir from the beatle's building, my coin not shiny enough, dang!

Saw something else that was interesting as we were making our way back:

Whats wrong with this picture? (click to enlarge)

Oh, there's people hanging off it..
Its actually an abseilling event~

All in all a very fun day, i really enjoyed the ferry ride and the walk through the tunnel as well, since thats not something you get to do everyday.. My souvenirs from today:

:):):):)