Misc

Sheep at Les Platons...







... baaaa.






Another look at the French nuke power station.




.. on a day with reasonable visibility of the Normandy coastline...






.. the closest point.




Les Ecrehos in the foreground, pylons on the skyline..




.. is that another pair of wind turbines, faintly?







St.Brelade's parish church in evening light...







.. and a ferry crosses the bay.





Back in town, a shop has a new "oooh shiny" sign, and apparently the old buildings (and HMV mural ad) are going to be renovated.

Distant Coasts

It was very clear at the weekend. Not quite as clear as the best I ever saw (before I owned a digicam and I've been waiting to catch such great clarity ever since) but not bad at all. I had someone with me and couldn't really take much time over it, so these rushed snaps out of the car window will have to do...

It's not often we see Alderney this clearly. I wondered if that was a big white hotel down in a bay like Bouley Bay (I've never been to that isle)...



.. but it turned out to be a ship :)








That looks like a nuke-ular station (Flamanville)...







.. and reprocessing plant (great neighbours, huh?)





The closest point (I believe) is near Carteret. The radio mast is here on the map at Route du Semaphore.

I haven't found the wind turbines on the map yet :)




Farther South...






.. and Les Ecrehos, I hope I'll get a clearer pic one day.






So here it is, Merry Christmas... have a great 2010, and thanks for visiting this piccyblog.

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.

Misc.

The Green Island area from the hills.








Le Hocq and Icho towers.






Chausey Islands (Wikipedia) on the horizon (map), Jersey cows in foreground.
You can just about make out the Lighthouse on the left of the Grande Ile.





Les Ecrehous (Wikipedia) with France beyond.






.. another, with windpower.







Meoww...










.. friends' puss.

Distant Shores

I was so impressed with my zoom after taking a pic from a bunker near Victoria Tower where I could almost read a sign from the other side of Anne Port...






.. I thought I'd see how pics would turn out of distant coastlines.
Here beyond the Paternoster rocks is the little island of Jethou between Sark and Guernsey...







Wildly boosted contrast (it was hazy) - the east side of Sark, also taken from Ronez point.





Les Ecrehos from the castle green...







.. Wind turbines in France...








.. closer...






.. further along the Normandy coast, south a bit...




.. etc. Now I know what sort of magnified detail I can expect when we ever have a really clear day like one I remember a few years ago, before I had this camera. I keep waiting....