sealord > This is a view of the south side of the peninsula of raised rock looking east towards the Quaine pole in Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast.  This image shows the shore at low water during the afternoon spring tide of the 17 April 2007.  The Laminaria ochroleuca kelps have been exposed.  Thongweed, Himanthalia elongata, and red algae drape over bedrock and boulders.  Patches of green Enteromorpha seaweed cover the ground.  At the top of the image, in the middle, there is an outcrop of rock with an opening to a small cave in the centre which is where European sting winkles, Ocenebra erinacea, produced egg capsules during the spring tides of 17 and 18 April 2007.  The yellow jacket of an ormer gatherer can be seen in the upper left-hand corner of the image.
File No. BG 170407 7917
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sealord > The brown seaweed Dictyota dichotoma in a tide pool in Belle Greve Bay, east coast of Guernsey, Channel Islands.

Photographed on 2 April 2007.

File No. 020407 7848
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sealord > The common periwinkle is common on the shores of the UK and on the shores of France but virtually absent from the shores of Guernsey, Channel Islands.  In Guernsey the periwinkle is replaced by topshells - particularly the toothed topshell, Oselinus lineata, and the purple or flat topshell, Gibbula umbilicalis.  This is an image of a periwinkle, Littorina littorea, in a tide pool at Cullercoats north of Tynemouth on the North Sea coast of England.  Photographed on the 18 March 2007.
File No. 180307 7099
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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 sea slug, Hermaea bifida, feeding on the red algae or seaweed, Halurus flosculosus, in Belle Greve Bay, on Guernsey's east coast on 5 January 2007.
File No. 050107 13-872
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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 > A corkwing wrasse, Crenilabrus melops, partially hides behind a frond of the red seaweed, Calliblepharis jubata, in a Belle Greve Bay tide pool.  The red seaweed, Gastroclonium ovatum, appears above the wrasse and to the right of the image. Photographed with a Canon S80 with an underwater housing on January 5, 2007.
File No. 050107 5425
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sealord > This worm pipefish, Nerophis lumbriciformis, lives in Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast.  The red seaweed, Gastroclonium ovatum, is obscuring the worm pipefish's body. The fish was photographed on 15 January 2006.
File No. 24-808
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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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This is a view of the south side of the peninsula of raised rock looking east towards the Quaine pole in Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast. This image shows the shore at low water during the afternoon spring tide of the 17 April 2007. The Laminaria ochroleuca kelps have been exposed. Thongweed, Himanthalia elongata, and red algae drape over bedrock and boulders. Patches of green Enteromorpha seaweed cover the ground. At the top of the image, in the middle, there is an outcrop of rock with an opening to a small cave in the centre which is where European sting winkles, Ocenebra erinacea, produced egg capsules during the spring tides of 17 and 18 April 2007. The yellow jacket of an ormer gatherer can be seen in the upper left-hand corner of the image.
File No. BG 170407 7917
©RLLord
fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > This is a view of the south side of the peninsula of raised rock looking east towards the Quaine pole in Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast.  This image shows the shore at low water during the afternoon spring tide of the 17 April 2007.  The Laminaria ochroleuca kelps have been exposed.  Thongweed, Himanthalia elongata, and red algae drape over bedrock and boulders.  Patches of green Enteromorpha seaweed cover the ground.  At the top of the image, in the middle, there is an outcrop of rock with an opening to a small cave in the centre which is where European sting winkles, Ocenebra erinacea, produced egg capsules during the spring tides of 17 and 18 April 2007.  The yellow jacket of an ormer gatherer can be seen in the upper left-hand corner of the image.
File No. BG 170407 7917
©RLLord
fishinfo@guernsey.net
This is a view of the south side of the peninsula of raised rock looking east towards the Quaine pole in Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast. This image shows the shore at low water during the afternoon spring tide of the 17 April 2007. The Laminaria ochroleuca kelps have been exposed. Thongweed, Himanthalia elongata, and red algae drape over bedrock and boulders. Patches of green Enteromorpha seaweed cover the ground. At the top of the image, in the middle, there is an outcrop of rock with an opening to a small cave in the centre which is where European sting winkles, Ocenebra erinacea, produced egg capsules during the spring tides of 17 and 18 April 2007. The yellow jacket of an ormer gatherer can be seen in the upper left-hand corner of the image.
File No. BG 170407 7917
©RLLord
fishinfo@guernsey.net
See photo in original gallery.

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