We recently enjoyed a bit of a rough high tide on a sunny evening, lots of people enjoyed the spectacle along the west coast...
.. lots of birds stirred up at La Pulente.
La Saline, with St.Brelade in the background.
Luxury houses take shape at the old Chateau site...
... closer.
St Aubin, and what variety of numpty approved that modern box up there on the skyline above the old traditional streetscape? I like up to date architecture but this is well out of place!
Numpties At Work, part II - sad to report the death of Common Sense. Several parking spaces have had to go JUST so that there is one entrance/exit opening. Was it really so bad?!!!
To the East then, and a good low tide goes out quite some distance beyond the end of the unfinished Archirondel breakwater.
A tide like that means you can walk in a straight line between La Rocque and the castle without getting your ankles wet.
At the harbour...
.. nice spot for fishing...
.. the old and new ferries...
.. from the Victoria pierhead.
To the Albert Pier, and the ramp has gone at last...
.. the top of the ramp used to be here.
View from Westmount...
.. a new carpark ready to make up for the spaces lost when the ruling elite of the island ignores The People and goes for total overkill on Selling Out to Tax Evasion/Avoidance and builds unwanted monuments to greed on the Esplanade.
.. closer. There's going to be a LOT more traffic down the 'waterfront' when this opens!
10 Wharf St - what was once the Golden Egg, latterly the Buddhabar, then Harlem....
.. is now
the Tiki Hut
I used to quite like the ramshackle corner that was the Turkish Kitchen...
.. boarded up for redevelopment...
... now emerging as St. Helier's newest conveniences.
A Tesco in Jersey? Who'd have thought? We get to walk in from Sand St and emerge in York Street again.
4 comments:
How's it going? Have you got any more interesting photos to share from the past few months? Miss your regular updates.
Hi James, thanks for commenting and for missing my photos! I've realised that the misc pages of various island changes just don't get enough hits to be worth the effort. The specialist subjects are the ones where I get the real traffic from Google searches. So I'm waiting for inspiration for more of those topics. Nothing happening at the moment! Best regards
Here's a bit of inspiration for you - Plemont Headland (Pontins site), Wolf's Caves, the new Airport Cargo Centre, changes at Durell, former Hotel des Pierres, Portelet Café & steps upto former Holiday Village, Zanzibar, De Gruchy's New St demolition (if you're quick), new St Martin's School, Quennevais School & Rue Carree fields as they are now, La Collette southernmost reclamation, La Pulente Toilets (proposed as a café), Greggs & loads of other new shops popping up over town, Le Couperon de Rozel site, CTV at Castle Quay, Esplanade Car Park & loads of other changes, most of them not for the better!
Best regards
Thanks James, I'll see if my hard to persuade sense of inspiration can be convinced :)
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