Take part in our Twelve Days of Christmas Quiz competition! You could win a free trip on our solar-powered tour boat, the Solar Heritage.
How to take part?
Between now and Christmas day, we will be posting 12 questions on our social media – Instagram and Facebook. Test your knowledge of Chichester Harbour and take a look behind the festive doors to reveal the question. Make a note of the answers and when you have all 12 answers, email them with your name and contact details to competitions@conservancy.co.uk
Follow us on social media to find the questions, or check this page where all the questions will be posted at a later date.
Answers should be with us by the 12th day of Christmas (5th January), after which all the correct answers will be entered into a draw and a winner selected at random.
The Prize
The first entry drawn at random will win a trip for four on our solar-powered tour boat, the Solar Heritage. There will be two runner-up prizes of single tickets.
Eligible boat trips include Harbour Discovery, Nature Discovery/Bird Watching and Seal Safaris.
The questions so far:
- How many species of seal are there in Chichester Harbour?
- Which species of seabird were the stars of our “Tern TV” this summer?
- What is the navigation mark that the sailing boats (pictured – see below) are racing around?
- What was special about the antifoul applied to our solar-powered tour boat this year?
- What species of wading bird is the chick pictured (see below)?
- What species of saltmarsh plant is pictured (see below)?
- A hovercraft was used to survey a precious and threatened harbour habitat this summer. What was the habitat?
- What is the speed limit in Chichester Harbour?
- What is the collective noun for Dunlin?
- What are the creatures (pictured) found on a fish survey earlier this year?
- How many litres of water can a native oyster filter in one day?
- When might you see a holly with smooth leaves instead of spiked ones?
Top tip – the answers to most questions can be found on our website and social media.
Terms and Conditions:
- To enter, make a note of all 12 answers.
- Entries should be emailed to competitions@conservancy.co.uk with all 12 answers.
- Alternatively, entries can be posted, addressed to: 12 Days of Christmas Competition, The Harbour Office, Itchenor, Chichester, PO20 7AW.
- Include your name and contact details with your entry.
- All entries to be received by midnight on 5 January 2025. Entries received after this will not be eligible.
- All entries with 12 correct answers will be entered into a random draw from which the prize winners will be drawn.
- The first prize is a trip for four people on our solar-powered tour boat, the Solar Heritage.
- There are two runner-up prizes, of a trip for one person on our solar-powered tour boat, the Solar Heritage.
- The prize must be taken in 2025, on a Harbour Discovery, Nature Discovery/Birdwatching or Seal Safari trip.
- There is no cash alternative.
- No employee of Chichester Harbour Conservancy may enter the competition.