Dolphins!

Contributing towards the re-generation of the Elephant and Castle?
What an assignment! I might suggest the Goering plan, but that would be poorly viewed! I have so little in common with the E & C that even considering the topic is difficult.

I spent yesterday aboard a catamaran, half a mile off the shore at Folkestone, looking out for dolphins and porpoises. The animals have been seen on each of the last few days, but the wind and tides had put a little bit too much chop on the sea and so it made drifting (so many jokes, so little time) along a little uncomfortable. After three hours we returned to Dover, at 16 knots.

I had been to Parc Asterix, just north of Paris at the weekend, but I did not go on many rides because I do not like them. Too bumpy.

Sixteen knots, in a catamaran, in a choppy sea?

Replicate that you pleasure-park owners!

And no pictures, except a shot of Dover castle; and sadly, the boat was not called the Elephant.




I was reduced to snapping at herring gulls.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pheasantscroft



Perhaps I can put a wild animal installation into the waste ground?
The E&C locals will probably never have seen real British wildlife.
Apart from rats and pigeons.

Ah well, off to see how the woodpeckers are this morning. No boat trips!