288/365 - Buoy in the wrong place!

This was actually taken last Saturday when I was at work. It was a very blustery day - in fact we were issuing a gale warning - and this buoy had broken loose and washed up close to our station. (Although it looks as though there is water around it, it is very shallow, so this buoy is very aground.)

It is an East Cardinal Mark, which means it is placed to the east of a danger area, so you, in your ship, pass to the east of it to stay safe. As we are on the west coast, this was as east as it could get! :D

It was picked up a few days later, when the weather had calmed down, and presumably put back in it's rightful place.

(Apologies for the graininess of the photo - it was on super-zoom.)

Aground East Cardinal with a windswept gull in the foreground.