After a period of warm southerly and south-westerly winds, the weather changed. Strong colder winds came from the north-east and an easterly direction. On 2 November 2006 by-the-wind sailors entered St. Peter Port harbour on Guernsey's east coast, driven in by the wind. Commercial fisherman Clive Brown called to tell me that about 25 Velella velella were washed up on the shore near his dinghy in the harbour. I went down to the Albert marina and with a discarded coke bottle I was able to collect four Velella velella by reaching out from a pontoon. This picture shows one of them which is mirrored by the water's surface. Photo taken with a Canon S80 with underwater housing.
File No. 021106 4218
©RLLord
fishinfo@guernsey.net

After a period of warm southerly and south-westerly winds, the weather changed. Strong colder winds came from the north-east and an easterly direction. On 2 November 2006 by-the-wind sailors entered St. Peter Port harbour on Guernsey's east coast, driven in by the wind. Commercial fisherman Clive Brown called to tell me that about 25 Velella velella were washed up on the shore near his dinghy in the harbour. I went down to the Albert marina and with a discarded coke bottle I was able to collect four Velella velella by reaching out from a pontoon. This picture shows one of them which is mirrored by the water's surface. Photo taken with a Canon S80 with underwater housing.
File No. 021106 4218
©RLLord
fishinfo@guernsey.net