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sealord > The litter items in this image were collected from the small pebble beach by La Valette bathing pools on the morning of Sunday 21 June 2009 before people arrived on the beach. Some of the broken cans had clearly been on the shore or in the sea for sometime. Someone had thrown glass bottles onto the beach where they smashed. This amount of litter represents a significant reduction in litter compared to the collection on 1 June. This reduction may be the result of the BBC's Beach Watch campaign at the beginning of the month. File No. 210609 5717 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > This image shows the items left on the small pebble beach by La Valette bathing pools on Guernsey's east coast after a warm sunny day. The litter items were collected at 2130 on 1 June 2009 and photographed the following morning. File No. 2130 020609 4866 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > La Valette bathing pools > Ligia oceanica pebble beach LaV 100607 591 smg
sealord > I visited the pebble and cobble beach at La Valette on Guernsey's east coast during the night of 10 June 2007. While picking up litter on the beach I noticed that the ice cream sticks lying about were covered by sea slaters, Ligia oceanica, that had ventured out from their crevice hiding places to feed on scraps of food left behind by humans. Sea slaters were also in some of the empty crisp bags but they were more abundant on discarded ice cream sticks. They were quick to leave the ice cream stick on my approach and disappear down into the cavities between the pebbles. File No. LaV 100607 624 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > I visited the seashore at La Valette during the night of June 10, 2007 to clean the pebble beach of litter left by the summer crowd. During my visit I saw several very fast moving house centipedes, Scutigera coleoptrata, running over and under the pebbles and cobbles on the beach. The centipedes on the pebble beach were too fast to photograph but I saw this individual on the concrete steps leading from the beach to the seawater bathing pools. His body was about 4 cm long and he remained still while I took a number of photos with a Canon digital camera. File No. LaV 100607 639 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > La Valette bathing pools > Schizoporella unicornis lophophores LaV 170603 29-677 smg
sealord > This sea slug, Berthella plumula, was photographed at La Valette on Guernsey's east coast. Whereas many sea slugs visit the Guernsey shore seasonally to lay eggs this slug is seen on the shore at all times of year. I have seen it on every trip to the shore. It is usually found dry under a boulder or cobble and looks like a drop of jelly. The rhinophores are rarely visible. The body is covered in a reticulated pattern and there is a transparent area in the middle of the slug, which is said to resemble an excurrent opening (osculum) of the sponge it feeds on. This is thought to be the sponge, Oscarella sp., although some early researchers have written that the slug feeds on the star ascidian, Botryllus schlosseri. File No. 23-643 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > The sea slug Berthella plumula is the most common sea slug to be found on the Guernsey shore. At low tide it is found on the base of boulders and cobbles that lie in tide pools. This individual was on the shore at La Valette on Guernsey's east coast just south of St. Peter Port. Dr. Bernard Picton from Ulster says that it feeds on sponges. Its appearance in this image resembles sponge tissue. It may be easily overlooked when searching for species in tide pools. File No. 26-646 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > This is an image of the lower shore at La Valette during an extreme low water spring tide (ELWS) looking north along the coast. Red algae covers the rocks including Palmaria palmata, Mastocarpus crispus, and many other frilly reds. The reproductive thalluses of the pale olive green thongweed, Himanthalia elongata, drape over the rock and brown kelp, Laminaria sp., poke out of the sea on the right of the image. File No. 172 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
The litter items in this image were collected from the small pebble beach by La Valette bathing pools on the morning of Sunday 21 June 2009 before people arrived on the beach. Some of the broken cans had clearly been on the shore or in the sea for sometime. Someone had thrown glass bottles onto the beach where they smashed. This amount of litter represents a significant reduction in litter compared to the collection on 1 June. This reduction may be the result of the BBC's Beach Watch campaign at the beginning of the month.
File No. 210609 5717
©RLLord
fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > The litter items in this image were collected from the small pebble beach by La Valette bathing pools on the morning of Sunday 21 June 2009 before people arrived on the beach. Some of the broken cans had clearly been on the shore or in the sea for sometime. Someone had thrown glass bottles onto the beach where they smashed. This amount of litter represents a significant reduction in litter compared to the collection on 1 June. This reduction may be the result of the BBC's Beach Watch campaign at the beginning of the month. File No. 210609 5717 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
The litter items in this image were collected from the small pebble beach by La Valette bathing pools on the morning of Sunday 21 June 2009 before people arrived on the beach. Some of the broken cans had clearly been on the shore or in the sea for sometime. Someone had thrown glass bottles onto the beach where they smashed. This amount of litter represents a significant reduction in litter compared to the collection on 1 June. This reduction may be the result of the BBC's Beach Watch campaign at the beginning of the month.
File No. 210609 5717
©RLLord
fishinfo@guernsey.net
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