Guernsey Day 2

The weather forecast was for sunshine so I went west.

I started at where you cross to Lihou island but no chance today.

I saw quite a few painted ladies 

There are lots of remains from both WWII and the Napoleonic wars.

This monument is to a ship that is featured at Fort Grey

This is Fort Hommet. I need to come back tomorrow as something I've wanted to see is open in the afternoon!!

Who stuck that red car there? Oh yeah me 😂😂

The buses must be good the gulls wait for them.

I parked at the Cobo kiosk. Then walked to Grandes Rocques. On my way back I read for a bit and grabbed a coffee.

Birds? Wheatear, Stonechat including young, Rock Pipit, Egrets etc

Guernsey Day 1

Well I got up at stupid o'clock and headed to Gatwick and got a turbo prop plane to Guernsey. 

I headed for a coffee and then popped across the road to Fort Grey a Napoleonic fort now a shipwreck museum, small but interesting.

A Roman ship excavated in Guernsey.

I then went along Rocquaine Bay. To Fort Pezeries and the Tanle des Pions.

Lunch was a crab sandwich and I had a piece of Gache with my afternoon coffee.

I noticed Pleinmont Tower was open so I drove up. It was part of Nazi Germany's Atlantic wall. The defences on Guernsey must have cost a fortune but were never used as the expected attack never came as the Allies bypassed the Channel Islands.

Birds seen? Rock Pipit, Raven, Marsh Harrier, Linnet and a Barn Owl flying over the M23 this morning. Oh I saw a Painted Lady.