We broadcast on Channel zero (Coastguard Channel) to Portland Coastguard that the station was closing and transferring to our new site. We left with the final trailer load of equipment and the team is now operational from the new site (there is a little sorting to do but we can work from there)
Anyway more on that in the next few days.............
Yesterday, the biggest worry was the weather, however at 9.30 we had a phone call to say the Chief Coastguard had arrived in Swanage so I started to breath again.
To start with the weather in Swanage wasn't to bad, however as the morning went on the snow started to fall.
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The visitors started arriving (about 60 of them), sadly some couldn't make it due to the weather, however my 1st task was to meet the Chief, the Regional Director and the Coastal Safety Manager at Peveril Point to show them what we were leaving. We found out the Chief Coastguard remembers Swanage well as when he was a "baby" Coastguard he remembers doing his cliff training in the area.
So with Peveril behind us, off we went to the new station to be greeted by the team standing in a line in the sleet.
The Chief was pleased to see the team lined up but quickly asked them to return in doors due to the cold!
More tomorrow.
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