Every picture on this website, with no exception, is taken from one place - our Dartmouth office garden
THE VIEW FROM THE DARTMOUTH OFFICE
NOVEMBER 2023 TVFTDO
Not one real great event, some great sunrises, but then there always is.
Oh, and mackerel coming out of your ears.
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03 November 2023 - 10:06:55
I'll try very hard to avoid any jokes referencing the captain's log. Oh heck, it's my birthday, why should I?
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Dart Harbour drag up the debris.
I'll try very hard to avoid any jokes referencing the captain's log. Oh heck, it's my birthday, why should I?
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Dart Harbour drag up the debris.

08 November 2023 - 14:41:56
There'll be a sad story somewhere behind this. Many of you will have seen this once proud vessel parked up near the Lower Ferry moorings. It has been gradually deteriorating over the years and finally Dart Harbour felt it had to go. And so off it went.
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MV Great Gull towed from Dartmouth
There'll be a sad story somewhere behind this. Many of you will have seen this once proud vessel parked up near the Lower Ferry moorings. It has been gradually deteriorating over the years and finally Dart Harbour felt it had to go. And so off it went.
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MV Great Gull towed from Dartmouth

08 November 2023 - 14:45:50
I think it was called Great Gull.
It may well have made its last flight.
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MV Great Gull towed from Dartmouth
I think it was called Great Gull.
It may well have made its last flight.
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MV Great Gull towed from Dartmouth

12 November 2023 - 07:24:19
It's not like I am running out of sunrises, but twice a year for four or five days, the sun rises over the sea as visible to TVFTDO. So let's make the most of those days when the clouds allow a proper viewing.
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Sunrise over the sea off Dartmouth
It's not like I am running out of sunrises, but twice a year for four or five days, the sun rises over the sea as visible to TVFTDO. So let's make the most of those days when the clouds allow a proper viewing.
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Sunrise over the sea off Dartmouth

15 November 2023 - 09:39:28
The train of lights is coming next week. The trackside crew are making sure they'll be no problems.
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Paignton - Kingswear railway maintenance.
The train of lights is coming next week. The trackside crew are making sure they'll be no problems.
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Paignton - Kingswear railway maintenance.

15 November 2023 - 12:44:28
199.91m long vehicle carrier Garnet Leader coming from Piraeus in Greece heading for Zeebrugge, Belgium.
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Vehicle carrier Garnet Leader passes Dartmouth.
199.91m long vehicle carrier Garnet Leader coming from Piraeus in Greece heading for Zeebrugge, Belgium.
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Vehicle carrier Garnet Leader passes Dartmouth.

16 November 2023 - 06:54:12
Very early shout for Dart RNLI. With the Torbay lifeboat out of the water at Noss, a stricken fishing boat was in need of assistance off Berry Head........
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Early morning RNLI lifeboat shout
Very early shout for Dart RNLI. With the Torbay lifeboat out of the water at Noss, a stricken fishing boat was in need of assistance off Berry Head........
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Early morning RNLI lifeboat shout

16 November 2023 - 06:54:31
.........the Exmouth lifeboat was speeding down to take the tow, but Dart's ILB was there first to keep the vessel out of harm's way.
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Early morning RNLI lifeboat shout
.........the Exmouth lifeboat was speeding down to take the tow, but Dart's ILB was there first to keep the vessel out of harm's way.
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Early morning RNLI lifeboat shout

16 November 2023 - 06:55:10
Before returning from Brixham the crew went to the aid of two yacht crews in Fishcombe Cove where the winds were causing difficulties for the crafts.
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Early morning RNLI lifeboat shout
Before returning from Brixham the crew went to the aid of two yacht crews in Fishcombe Cove where the winds were causing difficulties for the crafts.
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Early morning RNLI lifeboat shout

16 November 2023 - 13:39:35
After three nights out of the water the Torbay all weather lifeboat leaves Noss on Dart marina for its quick trip back to Brixham - via a quick stop at Dartmouth's town jetty.
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Torbay Severn class lifeboat the "Alec and Christina Dykes"
After three nights out of the water the Torbay all weather lifeboat leaves Noss on Dart marina for its quick trip back to Brixham - via a quick stop at Dartmouth's town jetty.
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Torbay Severn class lifeboat the "Alec and Christina Dykes"

16 November 2023 - 15:20:40
Over eight hours after it set off to Brixham, Dartmouth's Atlantic class ILB returns to base.
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Dart RNLI ILB
Over eight hours after it set off to Brixham, Dartmouth's Atlantic class ILB returns to base.
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Dart RNLI ILB

16 November 2023 - 16:00:10
Royal Navy Wildcat ZZ532 comes in to land on the parade ground at BRNC.
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RN Wildcat helicopter lands at BRNC
Royal Navy Wildcat ZZ532 comes in to land on the parade ground at BRNC.
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RN Wildcat helicopter lands at BRNC

17 November 2023 - 07:14:11
It wouldn't be TVFTDO without a sunrise. So here is just one example from November.
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Fiery sunrise over mouth of the river Dart
It wouldn't be TVFTDO without a sunrise. So here is just one example from November.
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Fiery sunrise over mouth of the river Dart

17 November 2023 - 08:53:30
Probably not a delivery from Amazon. Or Royal Mail for that matter.
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Delivery day in Kingswear.
Probably not a delivery from Amazon. Or Royal Mail for that matter.
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Delivery day in Kingswear.

17 November 2023 - 13:59:07
Final preparations for the return of the Train of Lights.
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Kingswear railway track workers
Final preparations for the return of the Train of Lights.
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Kingswear railway track workers

20 November 2023 - 17:32:40
And here is the wonderful Train of Lights. On its first test run of the season. Looking as good as ever with steam locos at both ends.
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Dartmouth's 2023 Train of Lights
And here is the wonderful Train of Lights. On its first test run of the season. Looking as good as ever with steam locos at both ends.
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Dartmouth's 2023 Train of Lights

22 November 2023 - 13:40:24
It's November, shouldn't the herons be flying the other way ? South, for the winter ?
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A siege of herons over the river Dart
It's November, shouldn't the herons be flying the other way ? South, for the winter ?
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A siege of herons over the river Dart

23 November 2023 - 11:07:12
A lumberjack lopping. Or a tree fella felling. Or a tree surgeon amputating ?
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Tree surgeon at work in Kingswear
A lumberjack lopping. Or a tree fella felling. Or a tree surgeon amputating ?
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Tree surgeon at work in Kingswear

23 November 2023 - 11:10:20
This guy is really out on a limb up that tree.
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Tree surgeon at work in Kingswear
This guy is really out on a limb up that tree.
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Tree surgeon at work in Kingswear

24 November 2023 - 13:19:06
Buster Ben is registered in Littlehampton, I guess they don't get six mackerel on the line every minute as this chap did on the river Dart in front of us.
It took longer to take the fish off the hooks than it did to catch them.
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Mass mackerel massacre in Dartmouth
Buster Ben is registered in Littlehampton, I guess they don't get six mackerel on the line every minute as this chap did on the river Dart in front of us.
It took longer to take the fish off the hooks than it did to catch them.
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Mass mackerel massacre in Dartmouth