Seaweed under the sea wall

Seaweed gathered under the sea wall at St Brelade's Bay.

Seaweed contains all the trace elements and plant nutrients necessary for healthy crops, in addition the alginates in Brown seaweeds (Phaeophyta) are reputed to be an excellent soil conditioner. In Jersey the special flavour of their new potatoes is thought to derive from the seaweed they spread on their fields locally known as Vraic (Wrack). The seaweed is also thought to suppress Eelworm in the potato crop and has been collected and spread by the Jersey farmers since the 12th century, when every farmer had the right to collect seaweed from the beach.

For ABC Wednesday.

La Rue L'Aleval

Outside Greenhills Hotel in St Peters.

For Our World Tuesday.

Fliquet Bay

To the North of St Catherine's breakwater.

A contribution to Scenic Weekends

Gorey Chain

A seaweed encrusted chain on the beach at Gorey Harbour.

For Our World Tuesday.

Woodford Car Park

Main car park at St Brelade's Bay.

For Shadow Shot Sunday

Old Station Café at Millbrook

On Victoria Avenue. The station was on a railway line which ran from La Corbiére to Gorey between 1885 and 1935.

A contribution to ABC Wednesday.

St George's Church

St George's is the daughter church of the parish church of St Ouen. St George's was built in the north of the parish in 1880 and is situated next door to the parish primary school, Les Landes.

A contribution to the CDPB St George's Day theme and Our World Tuesday.