mudsticks
Obviously an Aubergine
For a bike or foot passenger it is not really necessary to book and I have never done so. It was necessary to book during the peak of the pandemic due to restrictions on numbers travelling. This caused much local anger as tourists booked weeks in advance but locals with urgent journeys were forbidden to travel. You had to have a printed ticket last time I travelled a couple of weeks ago as they are not yet set up to read from a phone.
I've done multiple island hops, as a foot passenger with a bike and never pre booked onto any of them .
Even with lots of crossing it was really cheap.
More than a few times the person selling the tickets couldn't even quite make it out of his little cubby hole to sell a scant few quids worth of ticket to a cyclist, I guess in truth most of the revenue comes from cars..
And from selling chips and beer 😇