Day 6 South Coast and Jersey War Tunnels
Yet another very warm and sunny day. It is difficult to believe that it is October. We made an online booking for the Jersey War Tunnels at midday saving £1 each on the entrance fee on arrival.
We decided to start our day on the South Coast, pretty much where we left off yesterday. Our first stop was the beautiful St. Brelades Bay. The actual seafront is made up of featureless concrete hotels but the scenery around the bay is very nice.
We then to Noirmont Point and Portelet Bay where we again saw some spectacular scenery. Noirmont Point is a memorial site for victims of WW2. There are underground bunkers to explore and gun batteries all over the site. There were also 3 “Twitchers” with their scopes set up looking across the area looking for rare migrating birds but I doubt they saw much due to the large number of cars continually driving down the road and one or two barking dogs that were there at that time.
After this we tried to visit a National Trust site called Le Moulin de Quetivel as the guide book said it is only open on Monday and Tuesdays. When we eventually found the car park (very well hidden) and went to the entrance we were told that it is open to the public until the end of September and after that it was for school parties only. We did see the water wheel and had a short walk in the woods where we saw some lovely orchid like plants..
We made our way to the Jersey War Tunnels, which was built by slave labour from Europe in the second world war. It was originally built as a barracks but was converted to a hospital in readiness for the expected invasion of allied troops, to treat the wounded soldiers. This was a very interesting, well organised tour and we learned a lot about life in occupied Jersey.
We then found a car park alongside St Aubins Bay and stopped for our lunch before going to the small parish of St Aubin for a wander around. St Aubins Bay is a large expanse of sandy beaches and runs from St Helier to St Aubin. St Aubin's fort is situated on an island which is reachable at low tide via a causeway. We walked around the harbour area and then up a very steep hill behind the sea front buildings to a lovely street with very colourful houses. Looking through the windows we could see that they had spectacular views from the back windows over the bay.
We returned to the hotel early and it was a good thing we did. We filled in our passenger locator forms for Guernsey and this took ages. They want so much more information than Jersey did. And, like Jersey, we had to set up our own accounts so all information has to be entered twice. We had to pay 2 * £25 for PCR test kits but I now see that if we had arrived a week later this would have been abolished.
After a rest in the hotel, we walked into St Helier to find somewhere to eat and found a lovely Fish and Chip restaurant in the Liberty Wharf shopping complex adjacent to Liberation Square, where we had an excellent meal. We finished the evening off with a drink at the Adelphi Lounge pub where we had tried to eat on most nights but they were full. Nice relaxed atmosphere here and we left feeling very tired and ready for bed.
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