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La Valette, sometimes spelled 'La Vallette', is the small rocky bay on Guernsey's east coast. It is south of St. Peter Port harbour and Havelet Bay and next to the Guernsey Aquarium entrance.
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sealord > The velvet swimming crab, Necora puber, is called a lady crab in Guernsey. These red-eyed crabs are fast moving and aggressive except during copulation when couples can be touched without any reaction. Necora puber lives under boulders and cobbles and will quickly move away when a stone is turned over. This individual was under a cobble in the cobble field to the east of what I call 'overhang gully' at La Valette on Guernsey's east coast. Photographed on the 29 April 2006. File No. 290406 0111 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > A female furrowed crab, which is also known as Montagu's crab, Xantho incisus, burrying itself under some stones at La Valette on Guernsey's east coast. Photographed on 31 March 2006. File No. 310306 556 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > Two worm pipefish, Nerophis lumbriciformis, in a rock pool at La Valette on Guernsey's east coast. The female is green and ovigerous (has eggs internally). The red-coloured male will fertilise the eggs and incubate them on his abdomen. Worm pipefish can be found year round on Guernsey's sea shore but they are more common during the breeding season early in the year. They have only a dorsal fin. They lack pectoral fins and an anal and caudal fin. Photographed on 31 March 2006. File No. 310306 540 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > I have seen this beautiful dahlia anemone, Urticina felina, which is 8 or 9 cm in width, in a small rock pool at La Valette for several years. During the summer the rock pool is covered with velvet horn seaweed, Codium sp., and the anemone is hidden from view. Photographed on 31 March 2006 on the lower shore at La Valette on Guernsey's east coast. File No. 310306 562 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > This image shows a sheet of shore clingfish, Lepadogaster lepadogaster, eggs. It was taken with a 2.8 megapixel Olympus camera. The eggs were laid on the underside of a boulder lying on the bottom of 'Overhang' gully on the shore at La Valette on Guernsey's east coast. Photographed on 5 May 2004. File No. 050504 321 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > Rock gobies, Gobius paganellus, are abundant on the Guernsey sea shore. These gobies lay their eggs on the underside of boulders and cobbles on the lower shore from March to June. A sheet of eggs covering the bottom of a rock is usually from two spawnings. The male goby guards the eggs during development. In this image the eggs on the left are 'eyed' and more advanced in development than the paler eggs on the right of the image. This image was taken with an Olympus 2.8 megapixel digital camera on 21 March 2004. File No. 210304 89 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > La Valette on Guernsey's east coast > Cobble field La Valette 14-488 smg
sealord > I have given my own names to various features of the shore at La Valette. This is 'seaweed gully' (very imaginative) because it fills up with detached seaweed during the autumn and winter months. During the summer school children have found small freshwater eels, Anguilla anguilla, under the boulders in this gully. The seaweed decomposes here. Under the boulders and cobbles there are many Gammarus amphipods. At the top of the gully there are beadlet anemones and some gem anemones as well. The sea slug, Aeolidia papillosa, arrives in the lower reaches of this gully in May and lays its eggs under stones. A stream runs down this gully keeping the base of rocks moist. File No. 17-492 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > This image of the lower shore at La Valette on Guernsey's east coast was taken from a platform of raised bedrock at the eastern end of 'overhang gully' overlooking 'cobble field'. The boulders with off-white surfaces have been turned over recently by shore gatherers looking for ormers, Haliotis tuberculata, (abalone). This area is greatly disturbed by ormer gatherers. Quick growing green seaweeds such as freshwater tolerant gutweed and sea lettuce, Enteromorpha sp., grow over the surface of the rocks. Palmaria palmata and thongweed, Himanthalia elongata, also grows profusely here. Living in the interstitial spaces between the cobbles and boulders are a great variety of species including sponges, cnidarians (anemones and hydroids), crabs and shrimps, bryozoans, and fishes. File No. 13-488 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
A female furrowed crab, which is also known as Montagu's crab, Xantho incisus, burrying itself under some stones at La Valette on Guernsey's east coast. Photographed on 31 March 2006.
File No. 310306 556
©RLLord
fishinfo@guernsey.net
> A female furrowed crab, which is also known as Montagu's crab, Xantho incisus, burrying itself under some stones at La Valette on Guernsey's east coast. Photographed on 31 March 2006. File No. 310306 556 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
A female furrowed crab, which is also known as Montagu's crab, Xantho incisus, burrying itself under some stones at La Valette on Guernsey's east coast. Photographed on 31 March 2006.
File No. 310306 556
©RLLord
fishinfo@guernsey.net
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