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

THE VIEW FROM THE DARTMOUTH OFFICE

JANUARY 2025 TVFTDO


We were away on holiday for some of the latter p[art of January.

Bound to have missed stuff. Too bad.



There are 105 Photos in this album over 3 pages.

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01 January 2025 - 00:01:45
Organised by Dartmouth Chamber of Commerce and paid for by various sponsors, mainly generous businesses around town Dartmouth has once again got a New Years Firework display. An excellent focus for the evening, which, in time, may well hail the return of the fancy dress night in town.
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Dartmouth New Year Fireworks display
01 January 2025 - 00:02:40
Yeah, I know, not the best firework pix. Just live with it.
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Dartmouth New Year Fireworks display
01 January 2025 - 00:03:32

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Dartmouth New Year Fireworks display
01 January 2025 - 00:03:40

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Dartmouth New Year Fireworks display
01 January 2025 - 00:03:40
More than any other colour, the red fireworks light up the valley.
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Dartmouth New Year Fireworks display
01 January 2025 - 11:42:38

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Dart RNLI New Year's training
01 January 2025 - 11:42:51

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Dart RNLI New Year's training
01 January 2025 - 15:12:32
First day of the year and this group went a house viewing down near Ravensbury Drive and Warfleet. It always amuses to see people standing up in a boat, they tend to be unstable things. The logo on the umbrella reads Development Securities plc. According to the company website they were involved in the building of a care home in Dartmouth in 2010.
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Standing room only.
03 January 2025 - 07:37:07
03 January 2025 - 08:39:56
The Chronic used this pic and said it was steam coming off the sea. Puleeeze!
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Dart TN:I in a low mist.
03 January 2025 - 08:41:47
First shout of the year - a call out to Beesands. And on the way back into Dartmouth harbour a quick check of the shoreline under The Dartmouth Office.
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RNLI lifeboat shout.
03 January 2025 - 08:47:22
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03 January 2025 - 08:55:57
03 January 2025 - 08:56:36
03 January 2025 - 08:56:39
It's known as 'sea smoke' and is actually water vapour that forms when really cold air moves over relatively warmer water. It is not, as the Chron called it, "steam".
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Smoke on the water.
04 January 2025 - 07:40:57
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06 January 2025 - 10:25:34

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Kingswear construction
06 January 2025 - 12:20:18
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07 January 2025 - 08:16:20
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Tug CMS Thunderer returns to Dartmouth
09 January 2025 - 10:24:44
Dart RNLI new boat house continues to take shape.
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Dart RNLI new boat house
09 January 2025 - 14:30:46
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09 January 2025 - 14:34:41
11 January 2025 - 07:48:21
11 January 2025 - 10:15:50
Collective noun for a group of kayakers ? Just a suggestion but, how about, a raft ?
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Kayaker's en masse off Kingswear Castle


11 January 2025 - 10:19:23

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Kayaker's en masse off Kingswear Castle
11 January 2025 - 16:11:42
12 January 2025 - 08:30:38
12 January 2025 - 08:31:05
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12 January 2025 - 12:15:30
There used to a a rusty tin shed where now lies a portaloo. Change is a-coming.
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Kingswear construction
12 January 2025 - 14:00:14
Pacific Grebe is an unusual craft. It's a Nuclear Fuel Carrier. Mainly owned by the UK's Nuclear Decomissioning Authority. And right now, it's anchored in Tor Bay. Stand back.
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104m Nuclear Fuel Carrier Pacific Grebe
13 January 2025 - 14:37:54
Royal Navy Merlin helicopter ZH832 flying upriver.
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Royal Navy Merlin ZH832
13 January 2025 - 14:38:03

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Royal Navy Merlin ZH832
14 January 2025 - 07:44:44
14 January 2025 - 07:56:11
This little stunner turned heads.
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14 January 2025 - 10:10:44
Celtic Rock wanted their drill back.
A simple job - if you have a crane.
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Kingswear construction
14 January 2025 - 10:16:27
Strange complicated jib on the crane.
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Kingswear construction
14 January 2025 - 12:48:33
Meanwhile, little obvious change at the new RNLI boat house.
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Dartmouth's new RNLI Lifeboat station.
14 January 2025 - 12:49:23
And that's another storey. Down at Noss on Dart, the hotel is rising gently.
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Noss on Dart construction
14 January 2025 - 18:20:01
Yes, obviously that's the moon rising over Kiingswear. Can you see the line of three stars to the right and above the moon? They are, in ascending order.....Mars, Pollux and Castor.
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Moon and the stars over Kingswear.
14 January 2025 - 18:31:54
Late night run up and down the river from a Royal Navy Merlin.
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Royal Navy Merlin.night exercise
14 January 2025 - 18:32:01

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Royal Navy Merlin.night exercise
15 January 2025 - 07:23:42

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Cloud over Kingswear
15 January 2025 - 07:38:17

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Cloud over Kingswear
15 January 2025 - 07:38:38

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Cloud over Kingswear
15 January 2025 - 10:43:16

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Cloud and fog over Kingswear
15 January 2025 - 10:44:27

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Cloud and fog over Kingswear
15 January 2025 - 11:04:22
The sun finally burned off the cloudy stuff. Although in technical terms that's probably cloud on the right and fog down left. And the top of Kingswear in the background.
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Cloud and fog over Kingswear
15 January 2025 - 11:06:44

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Cloud and fog over Kingswear
15 January 2025 - 11:07:08

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Cloud and fog over Kingswear
16 January 2025 - 07:35:04
In the darkness, the mist wasn't helping vision. It's Kingswear ferry pontoon in case you hadn't guessed.
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Night mist over Kingswear
16 January 2025 - 08:42:05

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Low mist, low sun, under Kingswear
16 January 2025 - 08:42:08

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Low mist, low sun, under Kingswear
16 January 2025 - 08:42:31

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Low mist, low sun, under Kingswear
16 January 2025 - 08:43:03
Some interesting weather that's worth seeing. This morning's sunrise popped up under the cover of low cloud. Cloud, sun and mist, make the best pix. And turns me into a poet.
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Low mist, low sun, under Kingswear
16 January 2025 - 08:44:19

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Low mist, low sun, under Kingswear
16 January 2025 - 09:24:56
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