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Moulin Huet - deserted or so I thought, until a dog walker surprised me.
Legendary Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir fell in love with the secluded cove while visiting Guernsey in September 1883, and painted 15 famous pieces of Moulin Huet during his stay.
King Charles and Queen Camilla on the way down Queen's Road to start a day of engagements in Guernsey.
The causeway was under water, so a visit wasn't possible.
From information sign....
In 2006 Lihou Island and L'Eree Headland were
designated Guernsey's first Ramsar Site, which encompasses Lihou Island, La Claire Mare Nature Reserve, and the Colin Best Nature Reserve, as well as the intertidal area and outlying reefs and rocks.
Wetlands are habitats supporting a rich biodiversity and are among the world's most productive environments; as such they are a resource of great economic, cultural, recreational and scientific value.
Underpinning the Ramsar philosophy is the 'wise use of wetlands'; the conservation and sustainable use of wetlands for the benefit of people and nature.
Within the Island and headlands there is an amazing variety of interesting habitat types including rocky, gravelly and sandy shoreline, coastal grassland, salt marsh, reed bed and saline lagoon.
The site also includes vegetated shingle banks, sea grass beds and wet grassland which are internationally threatened habitat types.
These habitats support a rich diversity of animals and plants, including the marine mollusc locally called the Ormer. Ormers are found in shallow water underneath weed-covered rocks and can only be gathered by hand on 'Ormering tides', the lowest spring tides. Omering is an important part of the heritage of the Channel Islands.
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Upped the contrast levels and the blacks too, and I reckon it looks more like it should now.
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Our short break in Guernsey was mainly about our two grandsons and there was little opportunity for other photography. I did, however, manage to sneak out at sunset to grab a couple of shots near our hotel.
I took my Citroën Acadiane across to Guernsey for a few days to explore the island. It was interesting to see the coastline history off the occupation from WW2. The motoring scene was also interesting with the island policy of encouraging small cars for environmental benefits. There is priority small car parking in key areas around St. Peter Port. Many of the roads on the island are single lanes so small narrow cars are ideal and there is vast amount of Kei vans which have been imported from Japan.
Also known as the Jerbourg Peninsular, this high rocky outcrop is the most south easterly point on Guernsey.
We did walk all the way down to near the light house, as the bridge was under repair.
A perfect car for a small island with a maximum permitted speed of 35 mph on the island and 25 mph in many built up urban areas.
Citroën AMI registration 77214.
I took my Citroën Acadiane across to Guernsey for a few days to explore the island. It was interesting to see the coastline history off the occupation from WW2. The motoring scene was also interesting with the island policy of encouraging small cars for environmental benefits. There is priority small car parking in key areas around St. Peter Port. Many of the roads on the island are single lanes so small narrow cars are ideal and there is vast amount of Kei vans which have been imported from Japan.
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I was doing pics for a wedding when this pulled into the car park, there’s been a few arson attacks in the island recently which are most likely connected, and unfortunately they decided to burn some cars in the car park of the wedding venue :\
Vibrant coastal scenery from the UK Channel Island of Guernsey.
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Scenes of Great Britain
This collection of images has been taken over a number of years. My wife and I have been keen walkers and hill scramblers. We have walked many miles along our coastline from, more or less, Land’s End to John O’Groats and have taken a few pictures along the way.
The great thing about Guernsey, not being a large Island, you can get the bus, get of and walk back to your base. I think this was Vazon.