…As You May Be In For a (Nice) Surprise!

I first reported on the fraudulent charges Southern Water were billing Sovereign Harbour residents inmy post Money Down the Drain way back in April 2006!
The sterling work that Ray Battersby started and the SHRA’s Waterlines newsletter reported on meant that all Eastbourne Marina residents were supposed to get an automatic refund without having to go through the bureaucratic rigmarole.

But this has taken some time.

So, imagine my surprise when I opened my bill the other day only to discover a line on the statement saying ‘refund’, though it didn’t offer an explaination.

Check your bills carefully, you may have been refunded too

We like living on the marina to enjoy all of the good things ‘Mother Nature’ has to offer.

Here are 4 ways to help her by reducing your own Carbon Footprint by thinking about the things you do that involve producing the harmful carbon dioxide through burning fossil fuels.
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With green issues more prevalent than ever, the website junkk.com provides details of 100s of ways you can

reuse rather than waste

everyday household items by converting them from something you want to throw out, into something more practical.

Many of them provide excellent min-projects for your kids!

Proving that

One person’s rubbish is another’s treasure

the website freecycle.org is a forum where two local people can contact one another to swap what they don’t want for something they do.

It really is that simple!

Web auction sites like eBay are a great way to get rid of your unwanted items.

Make Money and Reduce Landfill

at the same time!

It’s amazing what other people will buy - you may even pick up a little bargain or two yourself ;-)

Just before the Bank Holiday weekend, four signs were erected on the beach of the outer marina …

These are a much needed, and long-overdue addition to this area of Eastbourne’s Sovereign Harbour.

Residents have been campaigning for over three years about the need for signs like these to increase public awareness to the potential dangers of the boat lanes and especially the mud which is exposed at low tides…

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I wrote in a previous post about members of my local dive club participating in an introductory course in marine archaeolgy on 28th April.

That article covered the first 2 parts of the course, whereas this article covers the final part of the course where we all got wet in a local swimming pool to try and translate the stuff we’d learnt in the classroom and on the outdoor, ‘dry’ exercise into practise.

The photo shows an underwater frame, which is one technique of surveying all or part of a dive site. The other technique we used…
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This is the third post relating to a dive I did in North Marina a few weeks ago and this time I’m going to show you one of the harbour’s most common marine species, although it’s also the one with the funniest name…

Here’s a photo of a couple of them:

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In previous posts I’ve written about the wreck that has been recently discovered in Norman’s Bay and the plans of the licensee of the wreck to work with my local scuba diving club to research it further.

As part of these plans, five dive club members attended an Introductory course delivered by the Nautical Archaeological Society (NAS) on 28th April, at the NAS headquarters in Portsmouth.

The course was split into three parts:
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Following on from a previous post here’s your chance to go underwater and see what’s it’s like in North Harbour.

The photo below shows one of around 30 starfish that I swam over during my dive:

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