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Hi all, I was down at Egremont ferry today and noticed that the green channel buoy has gone, does anybody know why. This buoy has been there since I was a young lad. Thanks in advance. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1407022

Is nothing safe

haha very good paranoid.

They get pulled for painting now and then, is that picture the one you were thinking of, or was it the "egg" boy?

CLICKY

Thinking about it, I spotted the dredger off Bromborough the other day, they might have taken the chains in to enable dredging.

I've just read that a green conical buoy is currently lashed to Seacombe Landing Stage presumably having broken from
its moorings.

Yes, thats the one. Thanks for the possible reasons.

They woz dredging that area on Friday, I didn't see it get moved as the could have done that the day before, Fort Perch Rock is a good spot to watch from, I think it was WD Mersey working that area on Tuesday and they were there on Friday, they are my visits to the fort days.

Here's the dredger that was parked up

Thats a dredging barge which holds the end of a pipe line. The dredger ties up alongside and pumps the sand ashore near to the white powder factory in bromborough.

Thanks for the info

I watched them come in on Friday morning. I took a picture of them on my mobile but can't find the bluetooth thing at the moment but once I find it, I'll upload them.

At least now I know what they were