Adrian Archibald is a three-times TT winner from 2003 and 2004 and after several barrenyears on Mona's Isle, a third-place in last year's Superbike TT heralded a return to form.
But private-equity firms are anxious to return money to their profit-starved investors and take some cash for themselves too, after a barren few years.
Before Levinton had planted thousands of oysters in steel cages in these waters last summer, they had long been barren of those same creatures that a hundred years ago almost entirely paved the bay and its creeks.
In other pictures, forests have flourished on formerly barren moraines, and glaciers that grew for hundreds of thousands of years have disappeared like smoke.
It would have spanned millions years of history, from the Precambrian Era when land was barren and devoid of life to the age when dinosaurs roamed the Earth.