A Bit of Trinity Parish (10/24/25)

We continue to have very changeable weather with wind and bouts of rain and occasional sun. Today was much better than yesterday when the winds were positively Orkneyesque. So today, we headed back out to explore a section of another parish walk. This time we headed northwest of St Saviour Parish to Trinity Parish, the most rural of Jersey’s parishes, with only 84 houses per square kilometer.

We were most interested in seeing 2 of the sites — the Jersey Zoo and the Eric Young Orchid Foundation, one for a photo op and one to visit. It ended up being about a 6.5 mile walk with a little more rain than had been predicted on the weather app, but we were prepared.

Bob got us to the zoo, which was just a bit over an hour walk.

Chateau Vermont, there is some $$ on this island

Bob and I were just commenting on how pretty the walk was when we came upon this humble brag sign.

Besides big heads, Bob likes to photo fungus. We found a few interesting mushroom patches on the way to the zoo.

The attractive entrance to the Jersey Zoo

We chose not to go into the zoo purely on cost considerations. It would have been $55 for both of us to go, and there are other activities that we want to do, and most things here have an entrance fee. From what we have heard though, it is a good zoo with a conservation focus.

From the Jersey Zoo, we then began following the Trinity Parish walk route to the Eric Young Orchid Foundation.

Me carrying the parish walk guide that describes the routes
and what you see along the way

This is a memorial to Bernard Scheidhauer of the French Air Force who crash landed near this spot on 11/18/42.
He was taken prisoner by the Germans,
but in March 1944 he escaped along with 75 other prisoners. Sadly, he was captured by the Germans
5 days later and murdered.

A better photo of a reproduction of a painting of Bernard
by a local artist

The entrance to the Eric Young Orchid Foundation

Eric Young was a local man with a passion for orchids that led him to build a collection of world status. The Foundation is his legacy. We have been intrigued with these plants after a housesit in the heart of Texas, where we were tasked (Bob took this on) with the watering and care for over 600 orchids.

Some photos of the orchids and other plants at the foundation.