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Marine life found in Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast. Guernsey is the second largest island in the Channel Islands located between England and France. The gallery begins with general views of the bay followed by major groups of animals including sponges, cnidarians, worms, crustaceans, molluscs, echinoderms, ascidians, fishes and ending with some algae.

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sealord > Thongweed, Himanthalia elongata, growing on a boulder in Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast on 16 March 2006.
File No. 160306 468
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sealord > Thongweed, Himanthalia elongata, growing on the base of a boulder in Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast. Photographed with an Olympus digital camera on 16 March 2006.
File No. 160306 469
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sealord > The dark red seaweed, Calliblepharis jubata, growing from the bottom of a small tide pool in Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast. Some of the fronds are intermingled with fronds of the pink coloured red algae, Corallina officinalis.
Photographed on 5 January 2007.
File No. 050107 5462
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sealord > The red seaweed or red algae, Asparagopsis armata, is abundant along Guernsey's coast. This plant was photographed in Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast on 4 February 2007.
File No. 040207 5924
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sealord > The red seaweed in the centre of the image is Plocamium cartilagineum. This was photographed on the lower shore of Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast on 10 February 2005. Notice the mushroom-like caps of the first year's growth of thongweed, Himanthalia elongata, and the knobbly holdfast of the brown kelp, furbelows, Saccorhiza polschides, on the extreme right of the image. The rock is coloured pink by a covering of various species of crustose coralline algae.
Photographed near ELWS on 10 February 2005.
File No. 100205 654
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sealord > Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast > scum wind driven BG 180407 8048 smg

sealord > This is the mid-shore area of the southern end of Belle Greve Bay near the Salerie quay looking out towards the Quaine pole in the distance which is reachable by foot during an extremely low tide.

I found this Guernsey Safeway plastic carrier bag lying on the beach and took an image of it before picking it up. Guernsey retail food shoppers used about 10 million plastic carrier bags per year before a £0.05 charge was introduced in 2008. Stopping the free distribution of plastic carrier bags at Guernsey retail food shops has significantly reduced the number being distributed. However a few plastic carrier bags still end up in the environment. Because of their light weight, some plastic carrier bags are blown onto the shore where they may be carried out to sea to be ingested by cetaceans, marine birds or turtles. See http://pagesperso-orange.fr/gecc/publications/pdf/PosterSeattle2002.pdf

Those that don't get ingested can degrade to invisible microscopic particles which then begin their journey through the food chain back to humans.

Disposable plastic carrier bags represent such a wasteful use of oil. They provide a short term convenience and a long-term environmental hazard.

Please bring a shopping bag with you when you shop. There are plenty of ways of remembering to bring a shopping bag with you. I have one attached to my belt loop so I never forget it. See http://www.sealordphotography.net/gallery/3338107_734Um#206829342

File No. 090208 2954
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sealord > I photographed the rising tide flowing into a shallow rock pool that is surrounded by a raised lip of granite.

The maximum tidal range around Guernsey is just over 10 metres (about 33 feet.) Guernsey has two high tides and two low tides every 24 hours (six hours between high water and low water). The rate of the rise and fall of the tide changes with time. In the first hour after low water the sea rises 1/12th of its range. In the second hour it rises 2/12ths of its range, and in the third and fourth hour it rises 3/12ths of its range during each hour and then the rate declines again to 2/12ths and 1/12th per hour. The rate of tidal rise and fall is greatest about half way between the time of low water and the time of high water.

This image was taken about 2 hours after low water as the tide is rising up the coast.
Photographed on 4 January 2007.
File No. 040107 5327
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