Showing posts with label wildlife. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wildlife. Show all posts

Tuesday, 24 July 2012

Misc - What's New

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 I hadn't realised the airport had moved. Runway 09 is a lot shorter than I remember.
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 Ah... the right way up, the 60th commemoration (slightly devaluing the Victory one from the occupation at the other end of the square) unveiled by Prince Charles last week...
... as his ancestor looked on.
 The Market Fountain tarted up for the Royal Visit.
Talking of princes, what used to be Prince's Hotel many years ago has changed its name from "Wack's Bar" (with an Andy Capp picture on the sign) back to Prince's.
 Someone's had a smashing time on College Hill...
 I can't think of any good reason to open it up, so I can only imagine it was accidental.

 Caught the accredited media doing an interview :)
 Another catering outlet-on-wheels at the Five Mile Road - this time at the Square Fort...
 .. closer. There's a planning application for another at La Pulente too.
 Hooray for Summer!
 And finally, I caught a secret squirrel.

Tuesday, 19 June 2012

Around the Chateau

Some shots taken recently around the old 'Chateau Plaisir' on the 5 mile road. As usual, leaving a comment (it's not difficult) is the best way to show me I'm not wasting my time :)

 Not getting a lot of use any more.
 A new kiosk this year, good luck to them.
 On the south side, I always assumed the 'Bars Open' sign was a relic but was surprised to find that it is indeed a functioning watering hole (or until they bulldoze the lot and built luxury houses here - as planned).
 Bit misty that day.
 We get a higher class of weeds in Jersey :)
 I've seen a couple of these spotty fellas year, no idea what they are.
 Beach, anyone?
 Nobody staying at the Barge on a nice day, what a waste.
 Might as well record this view before it goes...
 .. closer.
 Old war stuff.
 Probably one of the most exotic locations for a phone box in the British Isles.
 Looking towards L'Etacq.
 .. closer.
 .. and the other way, with La Rocco Tower in the distance.
 Looking up at Lewis Tower...
 .. a more conventional perspective.
 Straight road.
 That's all for now.
I'm not completely happy with Blogspot's changes to how I do all this. It's easier to upload photos, but I don't like the viewing gadget rather than simple links to the photos. It's a pain to resize them and left justify them one by one, even though the Div tags now solves the problem of vertical spacing which used to make my blog pages messy.

And it's a right old pain to re-order the pics, and keep the text on the right, sometime I just have to dig into the HTML view and sort it out in the code in there, which is time consuming and ****ing annoying!
So don't be surprised if I leave it a while now... I'm busy with other interests at the moment too :)
Have a great summer, if I go quiet for a bit!

Tuesday, 25 January 2011

New Bird Hide near St.Ouen's Pond

By the green/white house, over the road is an area of parking where an ice-cream van plies its trade in the warm months.
If you hop over / past a low section of wall, through a gate, and along the side of a small field or two...




.. there's a newly rebuilt bird hide.






The entrance...








.. the interior...







The nearby pond to the east...





.. and a view over wetland, toward St.Ouen's Pond to the north.

Tuesday, 13 July 2010

Misc

A bunch of Misc from recent weeks...


A calm day at Le Hocq, with reflections of individual clouds...






.. towards La Rocque.







At Greve d'Azette, looking towards...






.. the new incinerator (which has changed a bit since the pic was taken).






Probably the job with the best view in the island!






The old bus shelter at Grouville has been given a makeover by the kids from the local primary school...








.. closer...







.. and from the other side with war memorial in foreground.






A moth with red spots.







Noirmont Tower in the evening sunlight...







.. closer.







While up there, a Condor...







.. 'wavepiercer' ferry...





.. passes by en route to other isles.







An interesting relic rusting away at La Pulente.










A freshly repainted navigational aid...






.. the square tower in St.Ouen's Bay.