Thille : Fields of Yore & Northey Lake
Agriculture in Thille is still going strong and well protected, even though it is slowly gnawed at here and there. The ancient river beds, for instance, are carefully zoned so the residential and commercial encroachments do not become irreparable (and just in case of The Deluge).
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2. Close to the heliport (and its commercial and residential development), clean energy in remnant fields :
3. The passenger rail line also stops in the fields:
4.The cows can't play trainspotting but at least they can hear the trains arriving in the station...
5. And now, let's go to Northey Lake
6. The first area to develop economically way back then was, bizarrely, away north and east from the airport : Northey Lake. The lake is a bizarre thing in itself : a small salted water lake, an implausible remnant of the sea that used to cover the region when dinosaurs or something roamed the land.
7. Some "hippies", as they were called at the time, came to build a Research Institute for Sustainable Fishing Industries (now known as RISFI). They had been to Japan and observed the Fishing industries there. So, with the help of a Japanese architect friend, they decided to build it on and in the water, a decision that made them the butt of many jokes from the locals – but gained them a grudging respect when they managed to pull it off.
8. The RISFI fish farms now provide excellent, fresh seafood (way inland...) to all Thille's restaurants, as well as to the whole region, and are not laughed at anymore. Bon Appétit !
9. There is also a pigmy whales aquarium (ah, the miracles of biogenetics !)
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