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The Dolphin structure at the entrance to Whitstable harbour.
From Wikipedia:
"A dolphin is a man-made marine structure that extends above the water level and is not connected to shore. Dolphins are usually installed to provide a fixed structure when it would be impractical to extend the shore to provide a dry access facility, for example, when ships (or the number of ships expected) are greater than the length of the berth/pier."
Although he is very much underage, I managed to smuggle the Capt'n into the lounge of a nice pub in the town where my parents live in England. It didn't take long for him to feel completely at home, but he did think the beer could have been a little colder - what can you expect from a continental duck in England?
Wednesday, 14-Aug-2024, 12:56:48.
The Dolphins, Ποσειδώνος, Sami, Sami Municipal Unit, Sami Municipality, Kefallonia Regional Unit, Ioanian Islands, Peloponnese, Western Greece and the Ionian, 280 80, Greece, Sami Municipal Unit, GRC
OM Digital Solutions OM-1, serial No. BJMA68272, OM 12-40mm F2.8 II. 24 mm, F/6.3, 1/400 s, ISO 200.
"We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender".
Prior to the invasion of Normandy in June 1944, Lepe was used as a secret manufacturing site. Six massive concrete caissons (type B2 Phoenix breakwaters) were built here and later towed across the English Channel where they formed part of the artificial Mulberry harbours after D-Day. Lepe was also one of the many places on the south coast of England used for the embarkation of troops and equipment for the invasion. Concrete mats like big chocolate blocks were used to reinforce the shingle beach for heavy traffic. Some of these mats can still be seen today along with pier remnants, bollards and various concrete and brick structures.
I was looking from Lepe across to Cowes on the Isle of Wight, and was amazed at the number of birds in the sky.
The Dolphin, built circa 1530...no, not half past three, 1530 AD.
Just about the oldest pub in Derby, unless you’re a regular at the Seven Stars.
The effigy of the Dolphin hanging outside the pub used to have one red eye and one green eye, signifying port and starboard.
Let’s hope when COVID19 has finished with us it will re-open.
This is the Guardian and the protector of this old rusty fishing boat , that has been abandoned for many years on dry land. Textured moody photograph of the old boat "The Dolpin" that you can find in Akranes - Iceland.
Source: Scan of photograph.
Album: ARKELLS.
Date: Unknown.
Repository: From the collection of Arkell's Brewery, Kingsdown.
Local Studies at Swindon Central Library.
Church Street, Christchurch. A scene much changed today, but still recognisable from Christchurch Priory and the twin-fronted building.
Back then one of Bournemouth's Burlingham bodied Bedford WTB's stands outside Foxbury's newsagent. New in June 1939, FEL216, then owned by the Poole & District Model Railway Club was being used to follow the progress of ex London Transport trolleybus CUL260, which was touring the Bournemouth system in April 1968.
The Club also owned sister bus FEL218, which was fitted a model railway layout.
One of the thrills of going to the shore is seeing theDolphins, pretty far out but with the stormy waves, we weren't allowed to go into the water. I think there was a pod out there, you can kind of see their wakes.
Just before the river finds its way to the North Sea, the last stop is Whitby in North Yorkshire. A couple of people are fishing, one with a rod and another with a crab line. The rest are just watching the river gently flow, on a low tide. It picks up a lot of peat on its way out and the water is quite dark. The bridge connects the East Cliff to the West Cliff. St Mary's Church sits on the top of the hill, top left.
Taken with my digital Fujifilm X20
it's pretty surreal here anyway, but taking this the other night in the moonlight really made for a surreal experience.
It was a 2003 that we nicknamed "The Dolphin". It served us well for nine years and I reluctantly sold it only because we were moving overseas. It had around 70,000 miles on a 3.0 Liter V-6 24 valve DOHC mill. The only thing, other than routine maintenance, that it went into the shop for was a head gasket problem after a weekend in Death Valley. I did a speed test in the desert with this and it got up to 123 MPH. Not too shabby for a stock engine.
This was my second Taurus. The first one I drove down the length of the Baja Peninsula to the end and back. It also had the virtue of only having had one non-regular maintenance problem in all the years I owned it. That occurred after leaving Cabo San Lucas to head back north. The car started running rough and sputtering. And it sputtered right into the driveway of the only Ford dealership in a thousand miles of empty desert! There the engine died (what a car!). It was a broken fuel pump, and was quickly replaced by the kind people at that Ford dealership who served us refreshments and did the job in about an hour.
Olympus Trip 35 on Ultramax 400.
2006
A pub sign by Peter J Oldreive.
This sign has been posted before, but it appears it is signed by the artist only on this side.
The Dolphin public house, Saint Radigunds Street, Canterbury, UK.
Karen and I walked along Lepe beach today to find "The Dolphins" Karen very kindly allowed me to use her lens and filter to take a long exposure.
During the build up to D-Day troops and supplies were marshalled along much of the Hampshire coast. Lepe and the surrounding area came under the control of the shore station HMS Mastodon, the headquarters of which were at Exbury House. Many hundreds of troops with their equipment, vehicles and ammunition were hidden along the narrow roads and in the woods of the area
Operation Overlord was kept so secret that local people were unaware of what was going on and were issued with passes allowing them to go about their daily business. Even the local milkman had to sign the Official Secrets Act before he was allowed to deliver milk to the site canteen.
Troops and vehicles left from Lepe. Vehicles were loaded onto ships after being driven onto temporary wharves leading to pier heads. The four-legged metal structures that you can see today, were code named “Dolphins”. They were part of the pier heads and were used as mooring points for ships and landing craft. Tanks and other heavy vehicles were loaded directly from the beach after concrete beach hardening mats had been placed over the foreshore to stop them sinking into the shingle.
I set the alarm for 3.30am to give me plenty of time to get down to Southampton and make the walk from the car park. Got there quite a while before the sun came up, and there was a nice ambient glow from all the lights. This was the very first shot I took, exposure time was around 5 minutes, and sadly the light only got worse from here on in. The glorious sunrise didn't materialise, but not to worry.