Dramatic changes ……..

 

The shop facelift is starting to shape up. What a transformation.... on the left is the old shelving. The story goes, that when these shelves were built they were trying to come up with inspiration for the shape and decided to draw round Lucille's pregnant belly - hence the curvy shelf. Sorry Lucille....

Having lost half our retail display space, with the new viewing area into the hatchery, we had to come up with a new design for our shop area.  As you can see it looks fantastic already and I think we have got even more space than before.  Painting and LED lights are in progress this morning.

We are also preparing another space for a new education display.  Work will start on that this afternoon.

The builders are in

I’ve only been out of the office for two days and already it looks fantastic.  The 2m x 2m viewing area is going to make a dramatic difference to the visitor centre. 

On the right hand side you can see the low wall for our new brood tank which will have an acrylic window, allowing you to see the mummy lobsters in their caves and hopefully the eggs on their underside.

Thought you might like to see a photo of all the rubble and it even captures the amount of dust in the air.

Thanks to Save our Seas Foundation who have funded these developments.

Building works start tomorrow…..

View from the Visitor Centre                      View from within the Hatchery

We’re busy preparing for the big knock through tomorrow, from the Visitor Centre into the Hatchery.  The idea is to give the visitor a more ‘up close and personal’ experience with the baby lobsters. 

The viewing area will allow you to look directly into the holding trays where the juvenile lobsters are grown on.  We are also expecting a new broodstock tank for our maternity ward, which will have an acrylic side panel, allowing you to see the eggs on the underside of our mummy lobsters.

The visitor centre should only be closed for one day (19th January 2011), while they knock through the hole and after that, we can remain open while the rest of the work is completed.  Watch this space……..