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.

Misc, load of bollards

 Time to get out of the way some misc shots from the last few weeks...  Grouville beach and common...

 .. closer.

 You don't see so many of these any more, so I thought I'd snap one for old times sake, while there's still one left (Rozel - also one at La Place).

 Looks so lonely without anyone in costume around it :)

 The joy of Jersey, you drive around a corner in a lane and suddenly a view like this presents itself.

 The Dolmen Hougue des Geonnais - I can't help thinking it was a bit more open with less gorse around it last time I was there a few years back?

 Having found a way down a farm track (or three) to the coastal path, a quick shot of the coast in the evening light...

 .. Devil's Hole from a distance...

 .. and the reservoir building at Mourier Valley (there's often a good waterfall here, when the water table permits, going over the cliff onto the pebble beach).

 A tower in Grouville that's currently involved in plans to build a load of new homes around it.

 The path from the slipway near the Seymour Inn, starts as it means to carry on, but then gets narrower and narrower with hedges intruding, and finally gets impossible so we have to climb down to beach level (tide permitting of course).

 Eventually you end up on the beach for lack of a path, but you can nip back to the main road some way before Le Hurel Slip, using this footpath, to shorten a quick circular walk.

Originally, Oxford Road was a fairly long and winding affair, shown in yellow here... (Also in orangey colour, L'Avenue et Dolmen du Pré des Lumières and La Rue Le Masurier which are nearly 20 years young... they were created in the mid 1990s, the Coop Grande Marche was opened in Nov 2001, and the roads officially classified as Main Roads in 2002, La Rue Le Masurier now being part of the tortuous route of the circulatory systems of the ring road)...

 ... it cut through the middle of the Gas Place car parks. Now the new Town Park has done away with a stretch of it, leaving us with an absurd little stump of Oxford Road separated from the rest! Perhaps it could be more logically incorporated into Robin Place?

 Still, at least it's not the shortest road in Jersey, which possibly goes to Le Passage Gosset by the museum - little more than a parking space!

 While we're in the new park, here's the view towards David Place showing a path on what was part of Oxford Road...

 .. and the other way, a view featuring what's left of the gas holder - for how long?

 A park of tellytubby grassy knolls and some art installations. Definitely worth millions ;)

 .. except for local businesses who found their customers can't get there easily any more. The cafe here is still going, but the hair salon closed. Note also the over-the-top expensive paving, only recently finished and already marked by tyre rubber. No expense spared, but give us a pavement way too wide and do away with even more parking :(

 As if it wasn't bad enough, now it's sprouted some large signs!

 Railings, railings, railings...

 .. the spread of micromanagement and more and more bollards...

 .. now making an utter eyesore of the Weighbridge!

 Dear oh dear oh dear ... was the occasional parking there really so bad that this is better?!

Trust a private development to make their bollards interesting - this new batch at new offices on the old Swanson's site next to Payn St. (Esplanade to Seaton Place)... nicely varied and subtle... 10/10.

Quick Walk - "Le Malade" near Archirondel

A look at a stretch of coastline it's entirely possible to have missed no matter how long you've lived here!
(on the map with Bing here)

 Parking is available at the top of Archirondel, near the St.Martin Millennium Cross.... follow the road for a short while...

 .. with views like these towards Verclut.

 This part of St.Catherine's bay was neatly given sea walls as part of the 'harbour that never was' (1850s) all the way from the Verclut point of the northern breakwater to the Archirondel point where the southern breakwater was abandoned. I hadn't quite realised that the entire route was walkable!

 From the BBQ/Picnic area here, there's a set of sleeper steps..

 .. down to the sea wall path.

 I never bothered to explore along here, assuming I'd already seen all there was to see!

 Where I thought the path ended... there are actually some steps down to this small jutting out area on the map apparently called "Le Malade" (that's The Sick isn't it?!)

 Around the 'point' and steps back up again...

 .. and a delightful secluded cove I don't recall having seen before :)

 ... despite having seen it from a distance thousands of times, without actually registering that there may be a path there!

 It gets a bit bumpy on the final twist and turn of the path...

 .. then gets neat and tidy again...

 .. on the final stretch that joins up with the slip behind Archirondel Cafe.

 There's an outfall here, and giving us a shortcut back to the carpark above...

.. a final flight of steps to complete the little jaunt.

If you've never bothered with this paricular piece of coastline before, do give it a try on a warm sunny evening - I'm sure you'll enjoy it :)