Tresco today.

More about Phil Vickerys trip to Scilly

In addition to the slot on This Morning TV Chef Phil Vickery has done his own blog about his trip to the islands, click the link below to view.

http://www.vickery.tv/vtv01/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=169&Itemid=140

Today on Tresco

Try this one again...

Sunset from outside our house on Tresco

Trees near Pentle Bay

Posting from my phone as a tester..

A lot of the time these days I am too busy to carry my camera everywhere with me,but I always have my phone that has a half decent camera on it.
If this works out ok I shall start to put more photos on this blog sent from my phone..
So I hope it works out ok :-)

Great bit of film set on the islands featuring my gig crew.

http://www.itv.com/thismorning/food/crab-chowder/

This evening from Tresco

A bit of nature spotting on Tresco

 Great Black backed gull with a crab
  at Pentle Bay.

 Stonechat in the ferns above Pentle Bay

One of of the many Tresco cows,
they are all Limousin's and are very docile and photogenic!









This I think is a young swallow at rest on the electic fence that surrounds the cows field.
Seemed to have slightly shorter wings than the others..

Perfect today here on Scilly

Seaplane arriving at Tresco

Perfect day at Lowertown St Martins

The Queen visits St Marys Isles of Scilly

 Meeting St Marys police officers

 The Duke of Edinburgh talking to my son

 The Queen talking to Stuart Hitchens Coxwain of IOS Lifeboat

 The Queen and Mike Hicks Chairman of the IOS Council

The Queen meeting  paramedic Wayne Davey,

and first responder from Tresco Peter Marshall

Tresco Raft Race

 Last Sunday was Tresco Raft Race...
Following from last years successful day this year was
also very good with 13 rafts turning out including 2 from Bryher.

Various materials were used some more successful than others, but they were all new this year.
The rafts had to get from New Grimsby quay to the Flying Boat Club slipway..

 A good start was had by most entrants..

 Moored boats proved to be tricky obstacles to navigate past

And inevitiably you are going to get wet!
A great time was had by all and it there were no problems at all.

In fact it was so good that it will take place next year again.
Probably same time same place more or less!

World Pilot Gig Championships

I had a busy weekend as I am rowing in gig once again after a 6 year break!
 My crew is pictured here in the purple gig "Emperor".
It was a tough wekend against very good competition, we finally came in 53rd, not too bad for a new crew that hasn't been rowing together for very long..
An amazing spectacle as ever though with something like 130 on the start line on Saturday afternoon!

Goldfinch

 

We have been lucky enough to have a pair of Goldfinches visit the back garden for the past couple of weeks.

They seem very content and come and feed daily, makes a nice change from the hundred or so Sparrows that frequent the feeders..

Bee Eater

Bee Eater!

Bee Eater on Tresco today perched on power cables that cross a track behind Thatch cottage.
Big Thanks to my friend Max who let me know that it was there!

Rough Island Band