Games & Activities

Pairs Games - What am I?

starboard buoy

Sailors use port and starboard when we might say right or left.
The starboard side of a boat is on your right when you are facing the front.  Buoys are floating markers attached by a chain or rope to a heavy weight on the bottom of the sea. Starboard marks are always green with pointed tops. Port hand marks are red with flat tops.
This starboard hand buoy is a navigation mark. This means it is there to help boats find safe places to sail.  When a boat comes in to a harbour, starboard buoys show the right hand side of the channel.

helicopter

This is the `India Juliet’ the Lee-on-Solent based Coastguard helicopter.
HM Coastguard coordinates a maritime search and rescue service 24 hours a day. Whoever is in trouble on the coast, swimmers, walkers or big container ships, the Coastguard will make sure the most able rescuers are sent to their aid. This could be a lifeboat, helicopter, towing vessel or cliff rescuers.

pontoon

A pontoon is a floating platform that sticks out into the water, so you can get to deep water without getting your feet wet!  It floats up and down as the tide comes in and out. At low tide it may be sitting on the mud with only the far end in the water. The big posts in the picture stop the pontoon moving sideways. A jetty does not float, so at low tide you may be able to walk underneath it as you can at Dell Quay.

beach and sand dunes

When the tide is out the sand on this beach dries out and blows across the beach.  In the shelter behind something like a tuft of Marram grass it starts to form little ‘hills’ called sand dunes. This sandy beach at East Head is a favourite place on hot sunny days.

sea shells

These are slipper limpet shells.  Slipper Limpets came to the South Coast of England from the USA in the late nineteenth century. They feed by filtering the seawater. They are found stuck together, one on top of another in chains of up to 12 animals. Large shells are found at the bottom of the chain and smaller ones towards the top. They like to live in sheltered water - so which side of East Head would you expect to find the most shells?

solar boat

Solar Heritage is the first boat of her kind on the south coast of England. She arrived in Chichester Harbour in 2004 and is operated by Chichester Harbour Education.
Solar Heritage is used for educational trips and can carry 50 people.  The boat is a catamaran; that means she has two hulls with a gap between, and she glides smoothly through the water making very little ‘wash’ (waves). The two electric motors are virtually silent making for a very enjoyable cruise. They are powered by batteries, which are charged by sunlight, or from mains electricity. Where do you think the solar panels for collecting the sun’s energy are on the boat?

swan and cygnets

This swan and her babies (cygnets) amazed everyone by sitting quite happily by the side of the road to Chichester Marina.  She didn’t seem to be disturbed by passing cars or photographers! Behind her you can see Chichester Canal. The cygnets are lovely fluffy chicks now but will grow brown feathers as they get older and will only get white feathers like their mother when they are adult.

lock gates

The water in Chichester Marina would empty out at low tide without these gates to keep it in. However, sailors still need to get in and out. The lock allows boats to go in and out without letting all the water escape. The water level also goes up and down, so boats need to be lifted up to get in and lowered to get out when the tide is low. Do you know how this happens? There are two sets of gates; this picture only shows the outer ones. Visit a marina sometime and watch a lock

 


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