Water bus

Our whole plan with a buying a travel pass in the morning was to get the boat bus back to the station where our car was parked. It was a 20 minute wait at the central pier before our boat arrived and the tourists spilt on board. This is local public transport but difficult to identify any locals using it. We were fortunate enough to find seats at the rear and watch Zurich drift into the distance. 

Zurich sits at the top of Lake Zurich which is supplied by the River Linth in the east and outflows through the city as the Limmat River. There's no shortage of water here. The alps breaths life into everything.