L'Ancresse Bay and More

We visited L'Ancresse Bay and walked amongst the fairways of the golf course to a Millenium Monument since there was a dolmen nearby. A dolmen is a prehistoric burial chamber. We've visited a small one already but this one is much larger.

Bill says those short pants are called plus 4s.

As we walked along here came a young steer down the road! We wondered if he was headed to the golf course.

“The Torrey Canyon was a supertanker capable of carrying a cargo of 120,000 tons of crude oil, which was shipwrecked off the western coast of Cornwall, England in March 1967 causing an environmental disaster. At that time, the tanker was the largest vessel ever to be wrecked.

In Guernsey oil was collected from beaches using Sewage lorries and dumped in the Chouet quarry where until recently it has lain untreated. There have been some recent efforts to recycle the oil and you can see how the level has dropped by the black “tidemark” on the side of the quarry.”

We might have passed this by had we not known a bit of it's history.

We continued our walk toward large flocks of seagulls and found--the dump!

Beautiful L'Ancresse Bay at low tide.

This last week we revisited Castle Cornet and were in time to see the 21 gun salute. They were honoring a Guernseyman named Brock who helped save Canada from the United States.

We took some photos that we'll perhaps use in our Christmas card. 

At the gift shop I couldn't resist getting this tile depicting St. Peter Port. If it gets broken during the trip home at least I've got a picture.

This past week we met with a sister from the branch and helped her with family history.  We had the elders for dinner once again--they sure can put the food away!

We met last week and today with the Guernsey elders and sisters from Jersey for district meeting.

We met at our place this week. The lesson got a little bogged down with doctrine vs. principles vs. application. But it was a good discussion anyway.