2020 April The View From The Dartmouth Office

Every picture on this website, with no exception, is taken from one place - our Dartmouth office garden

THE VIEW FROM THE DARTMOUTH OFFICE

APRIL 2020 TVFTDO

A week or so into the Covid-19 outbreak.

This is likely to be a strange month for pictures. And for life itself.

A rather harrowing farming shot.

Surprise visit from a Chinook. And two Pumas on display

Social distancing at BRNC Passing Out Parade, plus Hawk jets flypast.

A great double rainbow. And, oh, the small matter of a heart attack. Mine

There are 185 Photos in this album over 4 pages. Click on a thumbnail to see it larger. You can even start a slide show.

01 April 2020 - 09-12-18
The solo crew of yacht Finesse takes her out to stretch her legs.
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Dartmouth yacht Finesse

01 April 2020 - 09-19-47
Legs stretched with a little run out to the castles and then back again.
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Dartmouth yacht Finesse

01 April 2020 - 14-55-59
Lots of us are confined to quarters. Thankfully the farming community is still hard at work.
That's a big field for Devon. But like most Devon fields, it has a slope.
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Devon Farmer tractor harrowing

01 April 2020 - 15-59-21
Take note of these rocks. They are important rocks. They are the rocks that gave me a heart attack.
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Piles of rocks in Garden

01 April 2020 - 17-41-29
A bit of a surprise - on a video call to my brother when the unmistakable sound of a Chinook came through. Heading up-river from way out to sea and very low, it looked like we would soon be treated to a close up view. But then..........it suddenly turned west.
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RAF Chinook Dartmouth

01 April 2020 - 17-41-33
Turning west the RAF Chinook immediately disappeared behind Gallants Bower.
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RAF Chinook Dartmouth

02 April 2020 - 09-44-30
Passing Out parade today at BRNC, so should have been expecting this - the bigwig's arrival.
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RAF Executive helicopter G-ZIOO arrives Dartmouth

02 April 2020 - 09-44-45
It's an AgustaWestland AW109SP registration number G-ZIOO. Or, it's the executive chopper bringing the bigwig to Dartmouth
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RAF Executive helicopter G-ZIOO arrives Dartmouth

02 April 2020 - 09-45-57
Landing gear down, the AgustaWestland approaches Britannia Royal Naval College
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RAF Executive helicopter G-ZIOO arrives Dartmouth

02 April 2020 - 09-46-10
Did I mention that it flew directly overhead ?
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RAF Executive helicopter G-ZIOO arrives Dartmouth

02 April 2020 - 09-46-19
Landing was not on the usual parade ground spot. Not surprisingly as that was full of navy cadets.
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RAF Executive helicopter G-ZIOO arrives Dartmouth

02 April 2020 - 09-49-41
No ships. Just a dramatic sky out to sea,
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Dramatic sky oversea off Dartmouth

02 April 2020 - 10-18-28
Dart Harbour's Hercules crane and crew move one of the mainstream buoys. Seems likely that its going to be some time before we get a big ship back in the harbour.
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Dart Harbour moving mooring buoys

02 April 2020 - 11-15-12
Two RAF Hawk jets made a very loud and very sudden appearance. Which reminded us it was Passing Out parade day.
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RAF Hawk jets flypast for BRNC Passing Out Parade.

02 April 2020 - 11-15-16
The two RAF Hawk jets disappear off into the distance.
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RAF Hawk jets flypast for BRNC Passing Out Parade.

02 April 2020 - 11-37-55
Some building / demolition work is continuing. MC-1 workboat has probably just left the little pink cottage (that was) down in Warfleet.
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MC-1 workboat

02 April 2020 - 11-38-08
You have to feel for this group of cadets. All that work and then none of their families get to see their graduation. It's the socially distanced BRNC Passing Out Parade.
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BRNC Passing Out Parade. No families

02 April 2020 - 11-53-14
We may have to be a shade creative this month if I am going to post pix to this site.
This is our neighbour's Photinia. A Red Robin to you
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Photinia plant (a Red Robin)

02 April 2020 - 11-53-22
Glorious colour. And do we need some colour in our lives now.
Our neighbour's Photinia (a Red Robin)
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Photinia plant (a Red Robin)

02 April 2020 - 12-47-50
Has Hercules taken delivery of a new fridge ?
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Dart Harbour Hercules crane

02 April 2020 - 12-49-18
Royal Navy Wildcat helicopter passed by. Couldn't get full number ....ZH53?
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Royal Navy Wildcat helicopter

05 April 2020 - 15-49-05
Kingswear looks good most of the time. Not the same that can be said for that tree however.
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Kingswear general view.

05 April 2020 - 20-27-27
Thursday evenings with the Clap for Carers is particularly deafening, and emotional, in the valley of the river Dart.
This house in Kingswear shows its support for the NHS at all times with its illuminated flagpole.
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Kingswear house. NHS flagpole lights

06 April 2020 - 08-00-46
A grey sky, but Mr Sun tried his hardest to make an appearance.
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Cloudy sunny Kingswear

06 April 2020 - 09-05-07

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Hedges of Kingswear

06 April 2020 - 09-05-50

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Hedges of Kingswear

06 April 2020 - 09-06-54

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Hedges of Kingswear

06 April 2020 - 09-08-57

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Hedges of Kingswear

06 April 2020 - 09-09-30

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Hedges of Kingswear

06 April 2020 - 09-10-03

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Hedges of Kingswear

06 April 2020 - 09-11-24

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Hedges of Kingswear

06 April 2020 - 12-12-41
The crew of DH99 Superb-Us head out to their boat
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Dartmouth fishing boat Superb-Us DH99 crew

06 April 2020 - 12-13-06
The crew of fishing boat Superb-Us arrive for a spot of fishing.
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Dartmouth fishing boat Superb-Us DH99

06 April 2020 - 15-22-25
Workboat MC-1 heading back downriver to Warfleet.
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Workboat MC-1 backs into Warfleet 'harbour'

06 April 2020 - 15-30-13
Some work continued throughout the week. This is workboat MC-1 (such a catchy name) reversimhg into its little harbour down by the out-of-view pink cottage
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Workboat MC-1 backs into Warfleet 'harbour

06 April 2020 - 15-30-38

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Workboat MC-1 backs into Warfleet 'harbour

06 April 2020 - 15-30-57

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Workboat MC-1 backs into Warfleet 'harbour

06 April 2020 - 15-31-19

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Workboat MC-1 backs into Warfleet 'harbour

06 April 2020 - 15-32-22

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Workboat MC-1 backs into Warfleet 'harbour

06 April 2020 - 20-00-07
Time for another shot at the moon.Eh NASA ?
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Full moon shot.

07 April 2020 - 09-49-33
A clear view of how the tide flows in the River Dart.
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River Dart tidal flow.

07 April 2020 - 09-49-52
The line behind the buoys indicate the direction the river is flowing.
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River Dart tide

07 April 2020 - 09-50-58
A bit of trouble as a South Hams council truck found Above Town too narrow minded.
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SHDC road sweeping.

07 April 2020 - 09-52-58
It took some delicate reversing to get the truck out. But slowly, slowly did it.
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Above Town, Dartmouth is narrow.

07 April 2020 - 09-59-47
South Hams council have continued their refuse collection. This was an out-of-the-ordinary visit and I am not sure they will be back. Above Town wasn't built to take this particular vehicle - it is being reversed out.
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Narrow roads of England. Above Town, Dartmouth

07 April 2020 - 11-35-20
A parade of some kind up at BRNC.
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Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth

07 April 2020 - 12-15-54
Lots of Buzzards flying over nowadays - I'm working on getting four in one shot. This is not such an attempt.
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Buzzard over Dartmouth

08 April 2020 - 11-04-12
The wake seemed a whole lot prettier than this when I snapped it. Still that won't be the first, or last time a pic didn't turn out as hoped.
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Dartmouth fishing boat DH76 Heatseeker ?

08 April 2020 - 11-04-57
Very linear blue sky thinking.
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Straightline cloud

08 April 2020 - 11-38-31
Passing the end of the river....a Stuart Cruise Line ferry out of Topsham
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Stuart Line Cruise ship

08 April 2020 - 11-41-00
245.07m long crude oil tanker Ocean Quest travelling from Tanjung Pelepas Anch (Malaysia) to Rotterdam.
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Oil tanker Ocean Quest

08 April 2020 - 13-43-35
Sorting out the moorings for summer. Well let's hope there is a summer. And I note that that stretch of shore (beside the Lower Ferry, is becoming more beach like as time and tide moves on.
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Kingswear beach

08 April 2020 - 14-22-31
Royal Navy Merlin ZH841 did a quick circle of BRNC before heading off north.
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Royal Navy Merlin helicopter ZH841

08 April 2020 - 14-35-09
One of those not a cloud in the sky days
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Kingswear general view.

08 April 2020 - 15-07-39
The strangely named ship K.Mugingwha, an LNG tanker, 288.2 metres long and travelling from the Sabine Pass LNG terminal which is on the Sabine Pass river between Texas and Louisiana. USA and it is heading for the National Grid terminal on the Isle of Grain in Kent. Which is not an Island.
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LNG tanker K.Mugingwha passes Dartmouth

08 April 2020 - 15-26-45
Vehicle carrier Couger Ace has not long left Antwerp and now heading all its 199.53 metres to Koper in Slovenia.
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Vehicle carrier Couger Ace

08 April 2020 - 16-03-18
Dart Harbour crews continue to patrol the quiet river.
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Dart Harbour Patrols, Dartmouth

08 April 2020 - 16-03-34
Dart Harbour crews continue to patrol the quiet river.
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Dart Harbour Patrols, Dartmouth

08 April 2020 - 17-36-15
Another vehicle carrier, Glovis Splendour heading to Dakar, Senegal from Antwerp.
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Vehicle carrier, Glovis Splendour

08 April 2020 - 21-25-43
It was simply impossible (with my limited skills) to make this moonrise picture work. Either the moon looked good, or the reflection looked good. This was the poor compromise.
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Kingswear moonrise

08 April 2020 - 21-31-37
The moonrise reflection worked a treat.
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Kingswear moonrise over the river Dart.

09 April 2020 - 06-27-15
A salmon pink sunrise over Kingswear.
Sometimes known as a John West.
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Kingswear sunrise

09 April 2020 - 06-28-17
A wider view of a salmon pink sunrise over Kingswear, Devon.
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Kingswear sunrise

09 April 2020 - 10-25-03
Dartmouth fishing boat Ellen P, (DH25).
Is a Pescado from FibraMar up Old Mill Creek.
Chatting to the crew Dart Harbour patrol rib Metis.
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Dartmouth fishing boat Ellen P and rib Metis.

09 April 2020 - 11-47-06
Why does one always feel guilty when the police helicopter pops by for a gander ?
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Devon & Cornwall police helicopter G-DCPB

09 April 2020 - 11-47-38
One of the police helicopters traversed the river
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Devon & Cornwall police helicopter G-DCPB

09 April 2020 - 13-54-56
Social distancing friendship.
A quick chat across the garden fence. Or, more exactly, about 25 garden fences
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Social distancing in Dartmouth, Devon

09 April 2020 - 14-49-17
With very little river traffic, the river is still enough during the day to provided reflected glory.
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Dartmouth Lower Ferry. Still river Dart

09 April 2020 - 14-49-26
Lower Ferry reflecting well.
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Dartmouth Lower Ferry. Still river Dart

09 April 2020 - 14-52-41
Buzzards. Don't ya just love 'em. If you're not a mouse, or a snake, or a chick, or a......
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Buzzard over Dartmouth

09 April 2020 - 19-13-31
Just a hint of evening mist over Kingswear.
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Kingswear general view.

09 April 2020 - 22-44-50
At least two noteworthy moonrises this last week. This one was through a light mist
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Moonrise through the mist, Dartmouth

10 April 2020 - 06-56-19
Sunrise over Kingswear.
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Kingswear, Devon Sunrise.

10 April 2020 - 06-56-23
A rather warm colour for this morning's sunrise over the top of Kingswear.
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River Dart, Devon sunrise.

10 April 2020 - 06-58-27
Birds flying high. You know how I feel.
Sun in the sky. You know how I feel
Breeze driftin' on by. You know how I feel
It's a new dawn. It's a new day. It's a new life
For me. And I'm feeling good
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Sunrise over Kingswear

10 April 2020 - 09-06-01
The crew of Superb-Us return home with their watch. Assuming there was a catch.
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Dartmouth fishermen. Superb-Us

10 April 2020 - 16-55-59
One man and his indian canoe.
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River Dart canoeing.

11 April 2020 - 09-52-01
Workboat MC-1 (catchy name) arrives in Warfleet where the 'pink cottage is being replaced.
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River Dart riverside construction

11 April 2020 - 11-20-11
A new favourite. Lockdown boredom has set in. So let's go wrestle on our paddleboards.
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Paddleboard fun. Daft wrestling.

11 April 2020 - 11-21-57
A far more serene sight. One man and his dog out for quiet paddle.
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Man and dog on paddle board.

11 April 2020 - 11-22-14
Wrestling over. It's difficult to tell who won. Both went for an early bath.
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River Dart swimming

12 April 2020 - 09-20-53
Easter Sunday, but you'll get no service at
St Thomas's church in Kingswear
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St Thomas of Canterbury church, Kingswear

13 April 2020 - 11-13-49
Container ship Madrid Bridge all 365.94 m from Yantian, China to Rotterdam, Netherlands. There will be a few medical supplies in there, no doubt.
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Container ship Madrid Bridge

13 April 2020 - 12-00-25
I'm not the one with green fingers. But it is a rather fine Camellia. The Japanese apparently had 900 names for it.
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Camellia shrub

13 April 2020 - 12-00-50
And in case you doubted it - it's right in the view from the Dartmouth office.
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14 April 2020 - 16-13-21
It has been very quiet in the air during lockdown, so this was a surprise...a visit from British Army Wildcat helicopter number ZZ407
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Army Wildcat ZZ407 over Dartmouth

14 April 2020 - 16-34-19
And if the Wildcat was a surprise, this was a double, double delight. Two RAF Puma's on exercise, one of them landing on a private landing zone over above Bridge Road, Kingswear. It looks like some people were expecting the,. Now I wonder who that could be ?
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RAF Puma helicopters ZA935 & XW232
Over Dartmouth & Kingswear

14 April 2020 - 16-34-59
One of the Puma's came into touchdown on a landing zone above the houses on Bridge Road, Kingswear.
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RAF Puma helicopters ZA935 & XW232
Over Dartmouth & Kingswear

14 April 2020 - 16-35-40
As one landed, the other made a flypast.
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RAF Puma helicopters ZA935 & XW232
Over Dartmouth & Kingswear

14 April 2020 - 16-36-11
And a small group were there to welcome it and wave goodbye. to the crew.
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RAF Puma helicopters ZA935 & XW232
Over Dartmouth & Kingswear

14 April 2020 - 16-36-18
A fairly spectacular departure for the landing craft. Still not sure which Puma this was.
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RAF Puma helicopters ZA935 & XW232
Over Dartmouth & Kingswear

14 April 2020 - 16-36-24
There's some rather nice properties over there. Can you see the giraffe ? And the hippos?
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RAF Puma helicopters ZA935 & XW232
Over Dartmouth & Kingswear

14 April 2020 - 16-37-27
Coming down river. I think this is RAF Puma ZA935.
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RAF Puma helicopters ZA935 & XW232
Over Dartmouth & Kingswear

14 April 2020 - 16-37-36
This is RAF Puma ZA935, heading downriver past Kingswear........
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RAF Puma helicopters ZA935 & XW232
Over Dartmouth & Kingswear

14 April 2020 - 16-37-39
.....closely followed by XW232 and its crew
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RAF Puma helicopters ZA935 & XW232
Over Dartmouth & Kingswear

14 April 2020 - 16-37-48
Heading west once out of the river.
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RAF Puma helicopters ZA935 & XW232
Over Dartmouth & Kingswear

15 April 2020 - 08-49-48
Things are so quiet here that if anything moves, it gets snapped. A couple of spare ribs headed out.
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Dartmouth harbour ribs

15 April 2020 - 09-00-16
Not sure how rare this is - certainly not been caught on camera by me before. Seagulls chasing a heron (I think).
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Seagulls chase heron

15 April 2020 - 09-00-32
The didn't give up. The gulls kept on dive bombing the long legged bird.
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Gulls attack heron

15 April 2020 - 09-00-37
Do herons attack seagull nests ?
Maybe this one did
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Seagulls attack heron bird

15 April 2020 - 09:00:44
The gulls did not let up. That heron was chased off their patch
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Seagulls attack heron bird

15 April 2020 -15-58-29
Who knows what was being said / asked ?
But we can guess. A Dart Harbour patrol checks on a kayaker.
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Dart harbour lockdown

15 April 2020 -15-59-46
Satisfied, the Dart Harbour patrol returns to base.
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Dart Harbour patrol

15 April 2020 -16-00-28
Dart Harbour patrols during lockdown.
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Dart Harbour patrol (rib Metis)

16 April 2020 - 08-55-45
One of the crew of Dartmouth fishing boat Superb-Us escorts the boat to Kingswear quayside.
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Dartmouth fishing boat MFV Superb-Us

16 April 2020 - 13-00-25
A fast run upriver for one of the Dart River Patrol. Seems it's a busy week for them.
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Dart Harbour patrol

16 April 2020 - 14-35-57
Passing by (rather high) a Royal Navy Wildcat
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Royal Navy Wildcat helicopter

16 April 2020 - 14-36-24
Dart Harbour's floating crane Hercules skips to work.
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Dart Harbour rubbish skip removal.

16 April 2020 - 14-37-07
Social distancing friendship. Kayaker and friend.
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Kingswear jetty kayaker

16 April 2020 -16-32-08
HM Coastguard helicopter G-MCGX flies north across the river Dart.
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Coastguard AgustaWestland AW189 G-MCGX

16 April 2020 - 17-56-19
X always marks the spot in Dartmouth
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Paddleboarders, kayaker, river Dart, Dartmouth

16 April 2020 - 17-56-45
Heading up Warfleet Creek. At least they have paddles.
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Paddleboarders, kayaker, river Dart, Dartmouth

17 April 2020 - 08:17:38
When that mist comes down.....it all goes dark
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Kingswear general view. low cloud

17 April 2020 - 13-19-28
Strike is not the brightest, but he is our favourite cormorant. Only Strike would wait for the first rainy day in Dartmouth to dry his wings out.
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Cormorant stretches wings on river Dart too dry.

17 April 2020 - 16-59-07
Every spring we cut our New Zealand fern right back and every spring we see this magic as it prepares to unfurl itself. It's also known as a Silver-tree fern or, for the dead Romans amongst us: Alsophila dealbata
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Silver-tree fern, Alsophila dealbata

19 April 2020 - 10-53-11
One man and his board dog.
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Paddle boarder plus his dog on river Dart

19 April 2020 - 12-47-04
The colours of Spring head for the beech. The copper beech
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Ravensbury Drive beech tree

19 April 2020 - 18:54:18
Courageous Ace. Yet another large vessel heading to pass some time at anchor off Brixham. It was heading to Antwerp from Barcelona. Built in 2003 for Mitsui OSK Lines
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Vehicle carrier Courageous Ace 198m long

20 April 2020 - 15-19-01
The year never stops for them farming boys.
Pretty certain that's John Deere trac'er
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21 April 2020 - 07-37-44
Glorious copper tones on this beech tree in Dartmouth.
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Ravensbury Drive beech tree

21 April 2020 - 07-38-53
Confused by the frequent visits to Above Town of the road sweeper. But he's not sweeping the road, but emptying the doggie dos bins.
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Dartmouth road sweeper

21 April 2020 - 10-34-11
Down in South Town some 'occupationally' distant work going on as a roof gets removed.
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Dartmouth construction in South Town.

21 April 2020 - 12-01-45
From the house of Slitherin, slow worms uncovered in our top garden. They're lizards and they're always legless. But then, we all know someone like that.
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aka: Anguis fragilis or blindworms

21 April 2020 - 14-17-33
The 400m long Mol Trust departed from Rotterdam Maasvlakte for pastures unknown.
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Container ship Mol Trust

21 April 2020 - 16:45:16
A passing naval vessel. No identification on Ships AIS. Is that HMS Tyne passing the end of the river Dart?
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River-class patrol vessel

22 April 2020 - 12-44-53
RFA Tidespring heading east. launched in 2017 she is essentially a floating fuel station. With attached supermarket.
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RFA Tidespring (A136)

22 April 2020 - 15-45-33.
Robins are meant to be unsocial creatures. This chap has had his feathers ruffled by an interloper who keeps moving in on his territory.
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Robin redbreast (Erithacus rubecula) in Dartmouth, Devon

22 April 2020 - 15-45-33
A greedy little chappie
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Robin redbreast (Erithacus rubecula) in Dartmouth, Devon

22 April 2020 - 15-45-56
A Navy Wildcat disappears around the Kingswear headland
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Wildcat helicopter

22 April 2020 - 15:47:57
The searchlight emplacement takes some reaching. Still, when you have little else to do in lockdown, it's now somewhere you are going to meet too many others.
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Froward Point searchlight emplacement

23 April 2020 - 07-25-12
Over on the Kingswear mooring, someone's put the sheets out to dry.
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Yacht mainsail

23 April 2020 - 08-00-58
Yep, it's RFA Tidespring heading back the other way (go west, young man)
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Royal Fleet Auxiliary Tidespring supply vessel

23 April 2020 - 08-56-12
Very little sound coming from the railway, so the sound of Titan, one of the shunter engines arriving in Kingswear was decent surprise.
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Shunter Titan D2192 BR Class 03 0-6-0 DM

23 April 2020 - 09-04-30
Very quick work to take the roof off.
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Dartmouth construction in South Town.

23 April 2020 - 09-05-20
Workboat MC-1 (on the left) awaits replenishment down on the Embankment. Little old Peggy is in the picture too.
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Workboat MC-1

23 April 2020 - 10-22-37
The Swannaton office sometimes have little to do. Shouldn't they be baking another of their delicious fruit cakes?
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Social distance friendship

23 April 2020 - 10-23-55
A final tidy up around the edges,
for a new flat replacement.
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Dartmouth construction in South Town.

23 April 2020 - 12-06-02
A buzzard over Dartmouth. It's not your eyes, it is out of focus.
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Bird of prey - Buzzard.

23 April 2020 - 13-23-40
The registration, G-YVIP, suggested this was rich folk moving around. But a quick check found the operator: Capital Air Ambulance
Of course, the patient might still be rich.
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G-YVIP - Beech B200 Super King Air

23 April 2020 - 14:49:37
The roof replacement project below us continues apace.
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Dartmouth South Town construction

23 April 2020 - 14:54:10
There's a man in Hollywood who knows something about colour and who might like a snap of this particular display of wisteria.
Oscar told me (that he knows about colour)
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Kingswear house with beautiful wisteria.

24 April 2020 - 08-58-24
Kingswear Castle sometimes surrounds itself with calming influences.
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Flat sea, Kingswear Castle

24 April 2020 - 09-06-06
It's scenes like this that makes you realise the calming influence of Dartmouth, Kingswear and the river Dart.
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Kingswear Castle

24 April 2020 - 09-06-37
A curve in the river probably doesn't help getting mooring lines into a straight line.
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Sports boat Lexi at mooring.

24 April 2020 - 09-40-02
The headland by the Gunfield looking calm. But then, everywhere is looking calm at the present.
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Gun Point headland.

24 April 2020 - 09-51-56
Rapid progress below us as a roof is removed. And awaits a flat replacement.
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South Town roof extension

24 April 2020 - 10-22-41
Nor that is a colour clash. An orange digger jib doesn't not go alongside that beautiful bush. Step away from the tree.
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Kingswear construction

25 April 2020 - 09-14-05
More haze than mist - but the sun continued to blitz through every so often.
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River Dart early mist.

25 April 2020 - 18:32:01
The no container ship.... Mol Emissary. travelled up from Livorno, Italy heading for...anchorage in Brixham.
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Container ship Mol Emissary 294.13m long

26 April 2020 - 06-13-13
A rather subtle salmon pink. Very difficult to produce accurately.
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Kingswear sunrise

26 April 2020 - 06-16-15
A few minutes later the pink had saturated a shade.
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Kingswear tree sunrise

26 April 2020 - 11-04-21
An unusual Sunday morning flyby from the Devon & Cornwall helicopter. Probably on a training mission - trying to get their hi-tech camera to work ?
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Devon & Cornwall police helicopter G-DCPB

26 April 2020 - 11-04-24
Fairly low,
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Devon & Cornwall police helicopter G-DCPB

26 April 2020 - 11-04-34
The Eurocopter EC145 even has a rear view window.
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Devon & Cornwall police helicopter G-DCPB

26 April 2020 - 11-05-37
The chopper heading downstream, turned around over Dartmouth Castle and headed back north again.
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Devon & Cornwall police helicopter G-DCPB

26 April 2020 - 11-06-29
Heading back upriver.
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Devon & Cornwall police helicopter G-DCPB

26 April 2020 - 11-07-43
And just time for another little pirouette over Hoodown
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Devon & Cornwall police helicopter G-DCPB

26 April 2020 - 17-06-21
Six hours later - the Devon & Cornwall helicopter returned, arriving from the sea.
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Devon & Cornwall police helicopter G-DCPB

26 April 2020 - 17-06-25
Back up river and passing Kingswear's Daymark
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Devon & Cornwall police helicopter G-DCPB

26 April 2020 - 17-06-30
Flying between Dartmouth and Kingswear (the's the tree atop of Kingswear you can see on the left)
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Devon & Cornwall police helicopter G-DCPB

26 April 2020 - 17-06-31
Of course, they may well have been on a "shout'. But it didn't seem that way.
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Devon & Cornwall police helicopter G-DCPB

27 April 2020 - 10-01-25
Quite a way out, all on their own. At peace. A paddleboarder (or paddle boarder as my spellcheck will have it) checks out the river mouth at Dartmouth.
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Kingswear Castle paddle boarder

27 April 2020 - 10-22-16
What's he doing there ? A yellow interloper nips in alongside the Lower Ferry in Kingswear
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Lower Ferry tender.

26 April 2020 - 11-04-19

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27 April 2020 - 23-15-07
With so little traffic on the river the occasions when the reflections are clear are getting more numerous. But, so far, it has not become a total millpond.
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River Dart still as a millpond (almost)

27 April 2020 - 23:17:37
Kingswear's riverside properties reflects pretty well as the river surface becomes stiller and tiller.
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River Dart still as a millpond (almost)

27 April 2020 - 23:20:03
But still not quite still enough. I'll keep watching.
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River Dart still as a millpond (almost)

28 April 2020 - 10-35-25
I then had another go in the morning. Just got all set up when.....that boatman in the extreme bottom left carved through the static water. End of reflection.
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Kittery Court reflection

28 April 2020 - 10-41-11
The roof replacement continues in South Town. One of the builders did s bit of exercise.
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Dartmouth South Town roof extension

28 April 2020 - 19-05-55
A somewhat dramatic sky at the end ff the day.
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Kingswear general view - dramatic sky.

28 April 2020 - 19-06-42
The darkest sky with the a sharp evening sun. Kingswear Castle, and the Gunfield show of their end-of-the-day attributes (evening sun)
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Late sun Kingswear Castle & former Gunfield Hotel.

28 April 2020 - 20-21-33
Red glow in the sunset over the river Dart and the town of Dartmouth.
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Evening red sky over Dartmouth

29 April 2020 - 14-40-26
The hire boats' pontoon has been looking rather rough (an understatement) for a while. It's off to the pontoon replacement centre at Hoodown.
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One busted pontoon.

29 April 2020 - 16-33-53
Certainly it's a colour scheme to catch the eye. The two craft from WeFerry arrive in the river. In front is Torbay Clipper towing Brixham Belle.
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Torbay ferries: Torbay Clipper & Brixham Belle

29 April 2020 - 16-37-01
Passing the Royal Dart Yacht Club - the Brixham - Torquay ferry craft heading upriver.
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Torbay ferries: Torbay Clipper & Brixham Belle

29 April 2020 - 16-37-14
The Brixham Belle does a number of different sea cruises during the season. Seems very popular on TripAdvisor.
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Torbay/Teignmouth ferry, Brixham Belle

29 April 2020 - 17-40-55
Her Majesty's Coastguard helicopter had a downriver run through today.
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Coastguard AgustaWestland AW-189 G-MCGO

29 April 2020 - 17-42-02
Why are they "Her Majesty's" Coastguard ?
Regardless of whose they are, they're heading past the Daymark
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G-MCGO helicopter near Kingswear's Daymark

29 April 2020 - 17-42-03
Miles away really.
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G-MCGO helicopter near Kingswear's Daymark

30 April 2020 - 10-03-03
Fishing boat Britannia of Beesands heads out to sea.....
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Dartmouth MFV Britannia of Beesands

30 April 2020 - 10-03-32
...well, maybe not today.
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Dartmouth MFV Britannia of Beesands

30 April 2020 - 10-47-49
That was a mighty fine tree up atop of Kingswear. I'm sure it will gain some leaves soon.
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Spring is here in Kingswear. Poor tree.

30 April 2020 - 12-43-40
Ocean survey vessel HMS Scott was listed as travelling from Falmouth to Plymouth. Er, via Dartmouth. She has just had her bottom scrubbed after nine months in the south Atlantic.
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HMS Scott, (H131) 131m long

30 April 2020 - 19-02-12
A rather exceptional double rainbow this afternoon between Kingswear and Dartmouth headland.
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Double rainbow