(Picture By Peter Frankland.)

SOMEBODY was fooling around on the west coast yesterday.

A flag emblazoned with a map of Guernsey and a kicking donkey, thought to have been put up as an April Fool’s gag, was flying high above Grosse Rocque at Cobo.

Mystery surrounded who was responsible and Castel harbour master Lionel Girard knew nothing about the new addition to the bay.

‘Someone must have put it up overnight. They must have gone out in a boat because it was a neap tide,’ he said.

The first he heard about it was when it was mentioned on BBC Guernsey.

A Guernsey flag flies above the prominent rock and, on Liberation Day each year, a new flag is blessed in a simple ceremony and taken out to the flagpole by fishermen.

‘During the winter months it gets ripped to shreds, so there wouldn’t have been much left of it when they got there at this time of year,’ said Mr Girard.

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