As the Scotland forecasts are still not nice, we are hanging around here in the sun and cold wind for a while. For the people that have never visited the little island, here are a few impressions:
This is the entrance to the visitors (Victoria) marina at low water. As you can see, quite a rise and fall of tide here (last week we had a 9.6 metre difference high-low). Despite being classed as a "small boat" in the Nordhavn range, we are too big to go into the marina. We stay outside in the main harbour - the eagle eyed might just find her in here:
Being outside gives much better views of what is going on. For example, there is a lot of effort to reduce emissions etc and new 2-stroke outboards are banned for leisure users as they pollute too much apparently. This is the Portsmouth - Guernsey - Jersey ferry leaving her berth. No comment, I hope they have a chimney sweep on board.
Our late evening view of the fast ferry heading off to Poole:
If you own an island like the Barclay brothers, then you have a fleet of nice tenders to use when popping into St Peter Port or delivering supplies. That is if you decide not to use the helicopter. Here is one of them:
We have a slightly smaller arrangement:
