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| Saturday, 30-May-2009 17:26 |
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Le Hocq
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Non native oyster farming
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Non native oyster farming
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Non native oyster farming
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Le Hocq - aqua culture
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Non native oyster farming
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Oyster beds
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Rock pool
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Icho Tower
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Hocq
Pictures taken over a couple of trips in March.
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| Thursday, 28-May-2009 18:27 |
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Dogs Nest or Mess?
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| Tuesday, 26-May-2009 19:34 |
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Bank holiday weekend at Les Ecrehous
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The Islands had a phenomenal amount of painted lady butterflies appear with saturday being a day when numbers appeared to soar in the afternoon, numerous stopped at Les Ecrehous and fed on the thrift.
Article in the "Guardian"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2009/may/26/wildlife-conservation
"In Tudor times, Richard Turpyn recorded "an innumerable swarme of whit buttarflyes ... so thicke as flakes of snowe" that they blotted out views of Calais. In modern Britain, swarms of butterflies may be a thing of the past but in the past few days at least, millions of painted lady butterflies have reached our shores after an epic migration from the Atlas Mountains of North Africa."
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| Monday, 20-Apr-2009 19:23 |
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Jersey seaweeds
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| Sunday, 15-Mar-2009 11:45 |
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2008 March storm damage at Les Ecrehous
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Previous entry with the Blue Hut:
http://ciwatch.fotopages.com/?entry=49449
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article5882235.ece
Lewis Smith, Environment Reporter
Sea levels will rise much faster over the next century than has been expected, even if governments are successful at controlling greenhouse gas emissions, scientists warned yesterday.
Advances in the understanding of the mechanisms that control how quickly ice sheets melt have shown that sea levels are likely to rise by a metre before 2100. The estimate is almost double the projection of 20cm to 59cm made in 2007 by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Equally worrying, the sea rises would continue to speed up and would have catastrophic impacts for generations....
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| Tuesday, 3-Mar-2009 00:05 |
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Wally moment
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Bass summer 2008
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Unicycle 2009
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Friday 13th Sunny Le Saie
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Young Danny was 15 on Saturday, and as you can see he had a unicycle for his birthday which he mastered in no time at all, sadly later in the day he collapsed and had a brain haemorrhage, and at 2:30 monday morning a helicopter took him to Southampton hospital.
Update: May 30th Tests in April showed a bunch of vessels that needed operating on and this was done on April 20th, Danny is now back at school on a part time basis and has a week for the time said for the healing of the operated area to heal, and then another test in July to see if the operation has been successful. Hopefully some normal activities such as boating and fishing will resume in the coming weeks.
Cheers Nick
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| Thursday, 5-Feb-2009 20:18 |
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Dartmoor
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| Wednesday, 28-Jan-2009 21:49 |
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Cornwall views
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I was not feeling by best during this tour, but never the less I enjoyed meeting Sue Sayer of the Cornwall Seal Group and many thanks for her hospitality and showing me the local seals.
My tour around the foot of Cornwall was in misty rain, hence the lack of pictures.
I got to this Church just after it had shut which was a little disappointing, I had been at Loctudy the previous year.
Tudy a 6th Century monk and missionary strongly associated with the founding of monasteries and churches in Brittany.
The needle at Bude almost identical to the one on the Waterfront but more colourful and interesting in that it involves light and the stars.
The "Bude Light", commissioned by Bude-Stratton Town Council and designed by Carole Vincent and Anthony Fanshawe, marked the Millenniumin Bude and celebrated Sir Goldsworthy Gurney, an 18th century inventor who lived in Bude Castle. It was the first large-scale public sculpture to use colour concrete with fibre optic lighting.
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| Friday, 23-Jan-2009 20:22 |
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"Caledonia" rememberance at Morwenstow
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Morwenstow Church
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The Reverend Peter Abell, & The Archdeacon of Bodmin Clive Cohen
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Piper Dr Angus Macdonald, with Lundy in the distance
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The 200 ton Brig "Caledonia" was lost in 1842 off Sharpnose Point all were lost apart from the sole survivor Edward Le Dain (my GG Grandfather) who was to survive two more wrecks in his career. The figure head marked the graves of those lost, and was recently restored and this ceremony commerates the event and remembers those that were lost on this perilous coast.
Le Dain stayed with the Reverend Robert Hawker until he was fit enough to return to Jersey with a collection to help him on his way. In gratitude Le Dain sent the finest Jersey cow to Hawker, and named his son Edward Robert Hawker.
Those that lost their lives:
Stevenson Peter - The Master
James Wallace - The Mate
Peter Strurrock (or Storrier) - 2nd Mate
Stephen Jones - Carpenter
David Wallace - Seaman
David MacDonald - Apprentice
William Tasker - Apprentice
The sole survivor Edward Le Dain formerly of the "Mary Ann" of Jersey
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| Sunday, 18-Jan-2009 19:39 |
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Petit Plemont
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Petit Plemont
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Worked boulder
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Petit Plemont
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Apologies for absence, I had problems with the home PC, new model up and running now, so in the coming months things should start ticking along here.
These are some shots early in 2008 at Petit Plemont the reason I went down was to photograph this worked boulder, there may be more, but that is all I could see at the time, The masons would chisel a joint and wooden wedges were then placed in the "V" and the theory is the tide comes up the wood soaks up the water and expands and the boulder splits, these marks are common at Les Minquiers and a few at Les Ecrehous, but not many around the coast of Jersey, there is or was one on the shore at La Saline, St John, but as yet I have not found it. It could well be covered covered over with the stone etc dumped down the cliff.
The pictured boulder may have been for the building of Greve de Lecq pier in 1872 by Imrie Bell.
I have also started a blog (my first) for the Marine Biology Section of the Societe
http://societejersiaise.wordpress.com
Happy New Year to you all 
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