Getting misc-y again

Up at the airport, a huge new cargo handling shed is making the area look a bit overdeveloped.

The Esplanade certainly is. Traditional old Jersey buildings got flattened for this latest monstrosity.

And why not rip up the greenery at the waterfront...

 .. to build even more temples to Finance?

- never mind, a replacement carpark on the Simply The Best site will make up for the lost spaces, the extra walk will do us good I'm sure :(

Another great idea - put a huge electricity substation in the middle of the upper park!

And rip up the grass here at Bel Royal because it's too much effort to mow it, and restore it to a 'natural look'.

On a more positive note, the First Tower station cafe has a bright and cheerful new paint job....

.. colourful even with the light behind it. I approve!

I got a laugh from spotting this at La Rocque :)

A new Condor ferry. Not sure about the pink and yellow, I have to say.

At the berth. Quite a low tide today...

This afternoon it would have been possible to walk from the beach by Gorey Castle, to Anne Port, around to Archirondel...past the end of the unfinished breakwater...

.. all the way to St Catherine on the beach...

 .. and clamber up to the slipway there. That's one heck of a low tide!

Back to town for more low tidings, and here's the castle high and dry...

 .. and looking past the fuel berth, the hermitage rock on the castle breakwater and a mine control bunker.

Back again - misc

At this time of year you can get this outfall into a sunset shot (La Mare, Greve d'Azette).

A now bare and tree-less Victoria Cottage Homes sees the newly replaced grass starting to take hold.

Down Wellington Road, De La Salle now sports brand new gates with the school crest looking smart...

... that figure has an oddly small head!

At the bottom of the hill, a shop now closed and boarded up.

Another school hill, and the smashed wall has been repaired.

Coming soon - TGI Fridays to enhance the waterfront.

How many great holidays began with a trip down Jersey's first Roll-On-Roll-Off ferry ramp at Albert Pier?

... it's going to be removed and the gap in the marina wall filled in.

... a better look at that container ship.

There has been building work for ages now on the coast road, I couldn't remember what used to be there...

... Google Streetview to the rescue!

New : Clos de (la) Charriere at the start of Plat Douet Rd, near La Grande Charriere slip...

Should it be Clos de la Charriere rather than de Charriere? The 'la' or 'le' (contracted to 'du') seems to apply to nouns (e.g. Clos de la Gare, Clos de la Bataille, Clos de la Fontaine) and they're naming this after La Charriere (the slipway - noun) rather than a name like Clos de Patier, Clos de Balmain, Clos de Mon Sejour, Clos de Maitland, etc.

Now there's a job that calls for a good head for heights! (Castle Street if you haven't been around since the 80s and don't recognise it!)

.. and to the left, the current state of the Esplanade with the latest office block complete (former Swanson's Hotel site).

Another before-and-after... the CoOp in Burrard/DonSt looks fairly nice IMHO here in Streetview, but in reality used to look a bit dark and gloomy...

.. it's now brighter and cheerful with new roof and upper windows.

A new church car-park underway in St.Mary, using part of a field over the road from the school and parish hall...

.. with a new gap in the graveyard wall. Hopefully this much needed facility will prevent congestion from all the on-street parking on the main road when the church is busy.

Walk : Esplanade to the Tunnel

The Liberation Station (ugh!) area in the evening...







.. seems like many years since this was the west-bound route from the tunnel to the Esplanade...





.. looking back, with the bottom of Castle Street in the distance.
Look carefully and there's a sculpture of...





"Jersey Girl" (by artist Rowan Gillespie) dangling above...








.. closer.







And, at night...







.. it's lit in blue from below.

Here's someone else's video of the unveiling, with good old Sadie singing...




Over the multi-lane highway then...







.. to admire the floating gin palaces at high tide...






.. closer.







A high enough tide to raise the old ferry ramp up high.







Towards the Needle.







The marina again...







.. and again.






In the other direction there's not a lot you'd recognise if you left the island in the 80s or before.







The Old Harbour and Commercial Bldgs may look more familiar though.





.. over the water to the yacht club.





The infamous Steam Clock.






The Tunnel. People have complained recently about the lack of lights inside, and it does appear to be very randomly lit!