Cracks Appearing

You'd think that they'd be able to fix the crack in their frontage considering all the building materials they sell!
:)






(back a bit) .. and I'm surprised that in this 'elf and safety age we're still allowed to walk past - why haven't the Safety Police barricaded it off like they did at Hamon's last year?

We can only hope that they'll tone down the amount of yellow when they make good and repaint!

The current state of the new incinerator. This is no ordinary blot of the landscape, this is a flying banana encrusted, unwilling taxpayer-funded, Jersey blot on the landscape!

St.Ouen's Bay - changing light II

The same afternoon as last time, believe it or not - from rain to blue sky.






Not bad at all for February.






L'Etacq and Pinnacle Rock, with Sark behind...







.. closer.






Two landmarks...







.. La Rocco Tower ...







.. and Corbiere Lighthouse.






The St.Brelade dunes...






.. a sand and grass paradise...






.. popular with kids of all ages...






.. and dog walkers.







Looking up at the back of that strange old building at Les Ormes - does it have a military origin or farming, or what?




A new bird hide under construction overlooking the Sand Pits Pond - near the top of the two dunes carparks on the hill.





Thank God for this unspoilt corner of the world!

St.Ouen's Bay - changing light

It was a day where it rained and then cleared, which left me like a kid in a sweet shop spoilt for choice where to aim the camera....



The Dunes "Les Mielles" in St. Brelade






Looking along the beach as a gap in the clouds illuminates one spot





Distant rain...






.. pours down over L'Etacq way (contrast boosted for effect)






That white house







.. and again.







At the Braye slip a bunker has been excavated...






.. hopefully I'll get to have a look around in there at some point.






Nearby, the beach showers are a fairly new addition.






Looking inland from the Braye slip (I'm going to call it that until someone sorts out for once and for all whether it is Le, La or Les!)




There's some ugly new fencing around the airport.






So-so pic of La Rocco Tower







.. and a bunker. Nearby...







.. it looks like the sea wall has been altered here? Odd!








Over to Corbiere lighthouse.





It's good to be back with my computer problems sorted at last and some usable light to take pics with. I hope it was worth the wait!

The other 14 pics from that walk feature a marked improvement in the weather, and picturesque-ness, so stay tuned ... it's coming soon :)

La Rocque

More pics from over a year ago - this time La Rocque at the island's South East corner.








.. closer.






The way to the pier.







Tower (privately owned) - the pink house is now far more garishly coloured - must take a new pic one day.






Not keen on this one.








- or this.







A riot of colour







This looked great on the camera. Pity it doesn't here :)

Gorey, one fine October evening

While I wait for YouTube to sort out their upload converter and stop mangling my videos, it's back to photography... or it would be if the weather wasn't so dismal. Luckily I've got a few folders of pics from the last year or so that I never got around to doing anything with, so it's time to trawl back and see if I can remember which ones went unpublished.

This lot is from a sunny evening in October 2008 at Gorey...



Good old red painted mine, Gorey wouldn't be the same without it.






At times like this I wish I had a proper camera to blur the background - public lavs aren't the best backdrop!







The Grouville 'riviera'...







One of many boat shots...







.. at Gorey Harbour, St. Martin.







Gorey Castle looms over the slipway at the quayside corner.








Languishing at the quayside.









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That's La Rocque in the distance... the island's South East corner...








...






.. closer, with some old 1780s Round Towers in evidence.







.. and Seymour Tower on a rock out at sea.






On the prom...








.. as the sun sets.