(photograph © Kiwidutch)
As the Ferry makes it’s way further into the Marlborough Sounds, we come across a bay that at first I thought just had a very fancy jetty reaching out into it.
Then I wondered if it were some kind of floating pontoon… an anchourage for more boats perhaps?
Then, on the right hand side of the same large bay I see parallel lines of buoys in the water… mussel farming? fish farming? lobster ? something else? I’m guessing wildly because I have no clue what’s being farmed here, although clearly “something” is.
The Ferry of course stays in the deep water in the middle of the Sound, so I have to make do with zooming in as much as I can, but as we go past I can make out some square-shaped pens that appear to be at the end of the long pontoon “thingy”, (technical I know! LOL) so might there be more than one kind of farming going on here?
I’m curious but clueless… so if you have any ideas what this stuff in the water might be I’d love to hear your comments…
(photograph © Kiwidutch)
(photograph © Kiwidutch)
(photograph © Kiwidutch)
(photograph © Kiwidutch)
(photograph © Kiwidutch)
The first couple of pictures look like a fish pen, we have the same thing here in Puget Sound (wa, usa) where they farm Atlantic Salmon. I don’t know about the other, the parallel bouys.
Comment by jamesorion — September 10, 2012 @ 5:24 pm |
Thanks Jamie, Welcome to my blog!
Salmon!… you might well be on to something there… who knows? it looks impressive doesn’t it? I saw a documentary a while back on Dutch mussel farms in the North Sea, there were kind of ropes and then “trays” (for want of a better description) that gave the mussels a good spot to clamp on to and they had a bouy on top that they used as a marker to pull up the ropes (or maybe they were chains) to check them. That’s the only vague idea I have to account for the mussel theory.
Comment by kiwidutch — September 10, 2012 @ 5:52 pm |