We've been on holiday in Jersey with some of Joyce's Weekly Walks group for a week walking (most of) the Jersey Tidal Trail around the perimeter of the island and visiting a few of the sights.
As Sections 4 and 5 are "challenging" today some of us walked just the last part of of
Section 4 (The North-West Coast) of the trail, from Devil's Hole to Sorel Point. Dru, Dan and Shaun joined Dawn and me in our sub-group, while the rest started where they had finished yesterday and carried on a bit further on. But we arranged to meet part way through their walk at
The Priory Inn, where our walk started when our bus was due to get there at 11:05.
This was our route (roughly - I didn't track today and we did go off course for a bit and had to back-track).
Here are a few of my photos.
As we had time before our bus, Dawn and I explored Albert Pier. We liked the granite alphabet seats with their semaphore, morse and flag depiction of each letter, but didn't recognise the dots representation at the time. It turns out to be morse code with a dash represented by a coloured dot and a dot by a white one.
The RNLI mural, created in 2024, depicts Thomas James King, coxswain of the St Helier lifeboat from 1945-1949.
We saw some rowers out in the harbour.
As you can see from the wind sock, it was quite windy.
This is the entrance to the harbour and as far as we could get along the pier.
Returning towards the bus station, we passed this eye-catching hanging statue at Liberty Wharf. It is called 'Jersey Girl' and was made in bronze by Rowan Gillespie. It was unveiled in 2010 to celebrate 65 years since the liberation of Jersey from German occupation during World War II.
We got off the bus at The Priory Inn on time. We were very impressed by the bus network on Jersey. Nothing seems to be more than about 30 minutes from Liberty Station. You do have to check the timetables, though, as some buses run only every 2 hours.
Joyce was there to meet us while the others were visiting Devil's Hole.
They soon joined us for a drink (see the top of the post) before we went our separate ways. We headed for
Devil's Hole passing the devil statue on the way.
There are lovely views along the coast.
The hole itself is best viewed when the tide is further in than at was when we were there.
Looking back up we could see the rest of the group waving to us.from the path we would be following a bit later.
We followed on behind towards Sorel point.
Dawn and Shaun saw a chough but I missed it.
Looking at the point, you can see how it got its name - there are some sorrell-coloured rocks at the end.
I walked down to the lighthouse.
Back past the car park there was a big gathering for electric bike racing on the circuit above the quarry. There appeared to be an ITV camera team there to film the racing.
We followed the road to St. John, where we got our bus back to St. Helier.
On arriving back at the bus station, Dawn and I had only a few minutes to wait for our bus to the
Jersey War Tunnels. We arrived about 2:45pm which gave us time for a cup of tea and 2 hours to visit - which turned out to be perfect.
It was well worth the visit. We loved the timeline through the tunnels and all the history. We used the audio guide, which was excellent.
Although intended to be used as a hospital, it never was.
I liked the depiction of a Jersey wartime home.
We were given "identity papers" at the start and tried to find the men or women on them in the stories of people from the times. This was mine.
The tunnels were only ever about 60% completed. There are still some unfinished shafts preserved as they were when construction stopped.
We learnt a lot of Jersey history here today!
You can find more details of our (what should have been) 3.5 mile route on the Jersey Tidal Trail Route page or here on MapMyWalk and more of my photos here on Flickr.
Thank-you Joyce for leading the others to meet up with us.
You can see more of my blog posts about our trip below
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