Belgrave Bay, St. Peter Port Guernsey.
High tide: 14/7/11 5:38 A.M.
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"Over the years an accumulation of taboo utterances and actions concerning the sea, and those who use it as a means to their livelihood, has come into being. A Guernsey fisherman will say, "Je m'en vais au baté" (I am going in my boat), rather than "Je m'en vais au paissaön" (I am going fishing). the fish might hear him if he said he was going fishing and he would get no catch."

"[The fairies] could journey through the air at will, but they usually travelled across the sea in boats. These boats had the peculiarity of becoming smaller and smaller as they approached land. When the fairy navigators finally breached them they were no bigger than a pebble. Sometimes they were seen to be the bones of some small animal."

- 'Folklore of Guernsey' by Marie De Garis.
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Old Sea Scout HQ, Cambridge Park, St. Peter Port, Guernsey.
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