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Le Hocq nach Icho Tower

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Distance
3.84 mi
Elevation gain
3 ft
Technical difficulty
Moderate
Elevation loss
3 ft
Max elevation
23 ft
TrailRank 
36
Min elevation
0 ft
Trail type
Loop
Moving time
one hour 47 minutes
Time
3 hours 37 minutes
Coordinates
1114
Uploaded
August 30, 2019
Recorded
August 2019
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near Le Hocq, St Clement (Jersey)

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I do this tour with Jersey Walk Adventures, you can only do it at certain tide times (low water at about 1.20 m). These low water levels are only reached in the so-called spring tide, ie the moon and the sun are in line and thus have enormous forces. They pull the water back during the low tide (at 13:38 h: 1.22 m) and during the high tide the water (at 19:29 h: 11.53 m) rises. A tidal difference of over 10 meters.
Trudie leads this tour in German and she has a competent answer to every question, she knows each shell by name and knows so much to tell about this "intermediate world", tides, life in the sea in the present and in earlier times. Simply amazing what she tells everything.
I highly recommend this tour.

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Le Hocq Tower

Starting point is the Le Hocq Tower. The Martello Tower was the first of the many defensive towers along the coast to defend against France (1778). General Seymour Conway (1719-1795) ordered the construction of 30 round towers. The entrance to the tower is on the first floor and can only be reached by a ladder. The tower is conical: at the bottom, it measures 10.5 meters in diameter, 8.7 meters at the top. On the bottom floor were the warehouses and magazines, the two upper ones served as accommodation. A heavy cannon stood on the roof.

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Austernbänke

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Moostierchen auf einer jodhaltigen Braunalge

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Posthornschmecken

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Zuckeralge

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Braunalge enthält Chlorophyll

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Seeamemone

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Icho Tower

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Ausblick am Turm

The tower can not be climbed, but the view from the pedestal is overwhelming: you can see a magnificent rock panorama, which is under water at high tide!

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Felspanorama

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Sandschlieren auf dem Wasser

Sandschlieren mean on the water, the tide comes. We set off two hours before low tide and then started the return journey at low tide. The flood is not linear, but follows the so-called 12 rules. If you divide the time from low tide to high tide into 6 parts, the tide in the first part increases by 1/12, in the second part by 2/12, in the third and fourth part by 3/12 and then again in the second part 5th part at 2/12 and at the last section at 1/12.

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Braune essbare Krabbe

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Seetangfelder

Trudie also knew a lot of interesting things to say about the different species of algae.

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Blick nach Osten

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