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| Monday, 30-Aug-2010 16:07 |
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Bass fishing
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| Wednesday, 11-Aug-2010 19:31 |
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Common Terns (Sterna hirundo) - Les Ecrehous
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Young chicks by the balcony
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These two chicks were lost through disturbance from humans
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BTO info on the Common tern: http://blx1.bto.org/birdfacts/results/bob6150.htm
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| Monday, 9-Aug-2010 20:06 |
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Jersey Lifeboat rescue of French yacht at Les Ecrehous
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http://www.rnli.org.uk/who_we_are/press_centre/news_releases/news_release_detail?articleid=596045
RNLI report on the link above:
I woke up to see the lifeboats off Marmotier and a French yacht that I had guided to safety the previous day high and dry on the rocks, at first I feared the worst but a call to Jersey Radio informed me that all had been rescued and were safe and sound.
When daylight came the crew returned on the rising tide and took the vessel off.
The vessel had not moored correctly to the mooring only picking the small buoy line and not the main rope which had been tangled by a previous visitor!
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| Sunday, 18-Jul-2010 19:03 |
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Gorey to Carteret rowing race
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Channel TV report on the race:
Four lifeboats called to rowing race
Four lifeboats were launched when boats taking part in the Gorey to Carteret race started capsizing.
The St Catherine’s Lifeboat crew were paged at 10.43 following reports that two rowing boats had turned over off St Catherine’s breakwater. Guard boats were having difficulties in towing the boats.
There were also worries for the rest of the rowing fleet who were encountering 4ft seas in force 4 to 5 winds. As a result the St Catherine lifeboat was launched along with the St Helier all-weather and inshore lifeboats.
Further rowing boats capsized. Some were able to carry on, but others had to abandon the race. The Carteret lifeboat joined the fleet near the Ecrehous.
As the fleet neared Carteret the conditions worsened and the wave height increased to about six feet with winds of force five. More boats capsized and the St Catherine’s lifeboat responded to a number of requests for assistance. One guard boat also needed help when a rope tangled its propellors.
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| Friday, 5-Feb-2010 21:55 |
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Danny White page two
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1st March 2009, just before flying in a helicopter!
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Sampling the fare at Les Ecrehous
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Captain White
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| Monday, 18-Jan-2010 22:37 |
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Petit Port nourrices
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I stumbled upon these nourrices recently and I was fortunate in that an elderly low water fisherman saw me looking at them and we got talking and he said these were built before the second world war by the Chalet Hotel to keep a stock of lobsters for their guests, I guess the steel bars maybe old rail tracks.
The Societe Jersiaise Bulletin for 2007 on pages 327 to 331 has an article by Mary Gibb and Ralph Nichols "Nourrices at Rozel Harbour, and elsewhere in Jersey"
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| Sunday, 17-Jan-2010 22:41 |
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Snow from a week ago
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St Lawrence Church
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St Lawrence Church
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Battle of Jersey walk St Ouen to Royal Square
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| Friday, 25-Dec-2009 17:00 |
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Xmas Eve walk & bell ringing organised by Jersey Variety Club
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Down from St Ouen's Church
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Looking down over the pond and the the bay
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Hearing about the Seigneurs horse.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/jersey/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_8424000/8424448.stm
BBC article on the walk
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| Friday, 20-Nov-2009 23:03 |
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St Aubin
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Plan with my addition of red lines for existing wall
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Concrete extension wall
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The outer wall
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Plans have been submitted to extend the pier 7 or more metres in width to halt the subsidence which has been caused by the dredging of the harbour. Funds will come from the fiscal stimulus fund.
Concerns about this project are the loss of habitat especially for two IUCN red listed molluscs Truncatella subcylindrica (the looping snail) and Paludinella
litorina which were recently discovered by Paul Chambers of the Societe Jersiaise marine biology section after he undertook some brief surveys of the area.
Responses to an Environmental Impact Assessment scoping document were sent in on the 19th.
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| Monday, 9-Nov-2009 00:02 |
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Fossil find
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Found this stone with what looks like part of a fossil in it, I found it in the harbour wall at St Aubin's. not what I was looking for, but my first fossil me thinks.
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