Herm

Herm is a small island about one and a half miles long and half a mile wide and is just three miles east of Guernsey. During our visit to Guernsey Paul and Anna took us there on the ferry.

 Herm seen from the garden of Hauteville House with the smaller island of Jethou on the right.

Leaving the harbour at St Peter Port. The guy on the jet ski on the bottom right followed the ferry for a good part of the journey, cutting backwards and forwards across the wake of the ship. Unfortunately he didn't manage to fall off.

The northern part Herm has sandy beaches whereas the southern half is rocky. This is Shell Beach and at the far end is La Pointe du Gentilhomme, also known as Alderney Point. Unfortunately it was a miserable and not very warm day, but it must be a lovely place to spend some time on a warm and sunny day.

A little bay on the rocky southern part of the island.

Plenty of gulls in the rocky parts.

A view of Jethou Island from close to the one of the landing stages - there are three to cater for different heights of the tide. The smaller island to the right is apparently called Crevichon Island and in front of that are two reefs, Percee Reef and Mouette Reef. In the distance is Guernsey.

A view of Guernsey and St Peter Port from Herm. The ship obstructing part of the view is the P&O liner Arcadia which was on a cruise around Britain visiting Edinburgh, Invergordon, Belfast, Liverpool, Cobh and Guernsey, although because of bad weather it had to stay overnight in Liverpool thereby missing a planned visit to Dublin. If you read this review by one of the passengers you'll see that their opinion of St Peter Port was "nothing much to see in the town except, as many people seemed to have found, a very swish M&S".