This guy has been lying in wait above the Admiral Benbow pub for years and ready to repel any boarders...
and there's a few heading towards him this morning in small boats...
just in time for the tourist season to start in earnest...
there's a temporary one-way solution to the missing Ross Bridge in place...
which won't help trade for the dry dock despite the installation of a huge hoist...
the dry dock itself...
is currently dry of customers too...
the livea-board, Ocean Warden has changed berths for the first time in many a year...
both Nowell beamers are in dock this morning...
along with a new inshore trawler currently being fitted out with the help of Penzance Marine...
the Scilly season has started...
Arklow Breeze is still awaiting orders...
while the National Geographic Endurance is busy putting her passengers ashore, no doubt they will have their binoculars and cameras at the ready spotting the local wildlife and natives in their Cornish habitat - as it says on their website about the ice breaker, "The National Geographic Endurance will safely explore unchartered waters and new latitudes, including Northeast Greenland, remote Jan Mayen island, the Northeast Passage and Mounts Bay" it also says she carries "a fleet of Zodiac motorised landing craft, kayaks, snowshoes, and cross-country skis" thoigh some of those may be redundant as the weather has actually warmed up here over the last few weeks,
