Stewarts Office Plants

We supply many businesses across the South, from Sussex and Surrey, through Hampshire and Dorset to Wiltshire and Somerset. For more information about the services we offer visit our home page, or contact us here. In this blog you'll find news, interesting snippets, stories and pictures of our staff's adventures out on the road.

Friday, July 05, 2013

Poole Harbour pictures

 I've had these first two pictures I took - while covering a maintenance rota - on my phone since last summer, so have finally got round to posting them on here, for no other reason than they are quite interesting.

They were all taken around Poole Harbour, on two separate days.

The first one on the right shows how high the tide had got that day. That's looking across from Poole Quay to the Sunseeker factory: look how high the water has got between the two warehouses - you could get a raft up there! Also, look at the van in front of the right warehouse, axle-deep in water.

On the left we have a Yucca outside one of our clients in Poole Harbour. Usually the Yucca Golden Sword is known for its gorgeous yellow foliage, but last summer it produced this wonderful flower head, which I couldn't not photo. Don't know if it's done it again this summer - they are pretty unpredictable when it comes to flowering.

Finally below, we have a very different picture I took while looking after one of the cross channel ferries I look after personally, due to the difficulty of fitting regular maintenance visits to their sailing schedule.

This was taken on a stormy day in November, and after eleven years doing these ferries I've never seen waves like this in Poole Harbour! They were hitting the boat right on the beam, which being a catamaran, was moving about a surprising degree. Not fun when I'm clambering about on a balcony in one of our safety harnesses.


I shouldn't complain, at this time of year I have to be down there at 0500, and standing on the deck looking over the harbour at that time of day can be glorious.