A new look

'New Look' in the process of replacing Woolworths...









The other doors in Halkett Place...







.. have now been removed (I guess there are enough fire exits?)








Bhs has a new neighbour.







The doors behind the young lady here have just been removed today and the shopfront brought forward on this side.








Looking down King Street...







.. going for the long zoom 'foreshortening effect'.







Bonus pic today (before it started raining), in Queen Street, featuring the other major UK chain of the old Big Three (BHS/Boots/Woolies).

The Ann Court question

See crapaudpinion.blogspot.com/2009/04/ann-court-question.html for some urban St.Helier pics.

Westmount - more

You don't even have to leave the road to get a good view of town and the bay...






.. but you do see more when standing by the wall....







.. it has changed a bit over the years!







Waterfront...





.. due to become the new Finance Quarter with sunken road (not that I've heard anyone be in favour of it apart from ministers)







Distant view taking in the Maritime Museum area and Pier Road beyond on the hill.







Looking down the steps to People's Park








Up the hill a little, overlooking the bowls green.








Classical + Gas







V College

Westmount

View straight ahead as you drive down from Overdale or the crem...









.. Elizabeth Castle, closer.







Looking down at West Park...







.. and St. Aubin's Bay







It was so bright I had to put my shades in front of the lens...








.. another one.







Tide's out...






.. closer look at the causeway to the castle.








That's Les Minquiers reef on the horizon.







Plaque on the rockface about the Battle of Jersey.

More views from here next time......

Sea fog

Friday evening - there was a bank of fog in the distance up north...







.. distant shores visible, nearby sea visible...







.. but a great big fluffy fog in the middle.

Here's the east end of Sark.





.. the westerly end from our viewpoint, and the smaller Jethou island.






That'll be Guernsey.







Towards Normandy...







.. closer...








.. closer yet, the wind turbines in the distance.







Fremont mast in the sunset.








Sark and Jethou again.







.. as things get orangey-pink with the setting sun







.. the fog shifts a little...







.. and more of the islands appear again.






You could be stuck in that on a boat, hemmed in, and think that all of the islands region is fogged too... totally unaware that it's just a relatively small effect :)







I had to leave before the sunset, but I was happy with what I'd seen.

Sundown out west

From a bunker at Le Port...






.. backlit wavebreak...







.. crashing waves...







.. along the bay.







In the other direction...







.. the new El Tico still under construction behind the Lifeguards lookout.






Slipway







Distant boat








Purple sky






Golden Horizon