< October 2012 >

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Wednesday, 3rd October

Saturday, 6th October

The cable-laying barge Cable Enterprise was laying the line that will take power ashore from Gwynt y Môr but something went wrong and she's spent the last couple of weeks being repaired at Cammell Laird. Now she's being towed back out to the site by Fairplay-27 (bow) and Smit Sandon (stern), with pilot being dropped off by Skua.

Sunday, 7th October

Monday, 8th October

A sun dog (also called a parhelion) over Wallasey. They're caused by flat ice crystals in the atmosphere. If it's windy, the crystals are in random orientations so you see an arc around the sun; if the atmosphere is still, the crystals orient vertically and refract light horizontally to form a sun dog on each side of the sun. Here, only one was visible as conditions weren't right on the other side of the sun. The sun dog was rather brighter while I was walking home but it had dimmed by the time I got home, got my camera and went back outside.

Tuesday, 9th October

Saturday, 13th October

Ships

Prince's Dock

Sunday, 14th October

The jack-up crane ship Friedrich Ernestine has been in and out of Cammell Laird in between trials at Gwynt y Môr, where she'll be joining another crane ship installing turbines.

Monday, 15th October

Back in again...

Tuesday, 16th October

Ships and boats

High tide

The combination of last night's new moon and strong westerly winds pushing water onto the shore led to the highest tide I've seen on the river. When I set off, I think the waves were coming over the wall at the Canning Dock entrance, though the level had dropped a little by the time I got there. When I was coming back home, the water had dropped far enough to reveal debris left on the old Prince's Landing Stage.

Black-headed gull

A black-headed gull, so called because their heads are brown in the summer and white in the winter.

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Thursday, 18th October

Saturday, 20th October

Liverpool Docks

Ships

Architecture

Sunset

Sunday, 21st October

Wednesday, 24th October

Thursday, 25th October

Saturday, 27th October

Monday, 29th October