In a granite farmhouse near La Coupee, you will find the home of Caragh’s Chocolates. Made from local Sark cream and delicious chocolate Caragh has been hand making delicious chocolates here since the 1990s. You can see the chocolates being made in the kitchen and have refreshments outside from the café. See the website https://www.caraghchocolates.com/ or call 01481 832703.
Attractions
If you are like many visitors to Sark, and love fresh seafood, you can’t get better and fresher than Sark produce. To protect the beautiful seas and marine life around Sark the lobster and scallop season is strictly monitored. Fishermen can use lobster pots and dive for scallops between March 20th and October 20th, but not over the winter. Dredging is not allowed, so scallops have to be hand dived,…
The Gouliot Headland is a RAMSAR site (it gained this status in 2007), recognised worldwide as having special animal and plant life, particularly the marine life in the Gouliot Caves, a large sea cave system on the Sark side of the Gouliot passage. The area above the caves, on the headland itself, is a blanket of bluebells and primroses in spring. Botanists may also spot one or two white bluebells (not to…
La Coupée, the causeway which joins big and little Sark, is about 100m long. It is a high ridge 80 metres (262 ft) above the sea which is only some three metres in width. This is gradually being eroded and Little Sark will eventually become an island (a similar process is likely to have occurred with Brecqhou close to Sark’s west coast). Several small islets lie close to the shore of…
“The Sark Museum, an authentic vintage experience” The Sark Museum is an authentic experience of Sark’s wide history, over several centuries, with two museums in one! The museum is open for the season from 2pm – 4.30pm daily, closing Fri-Sat 5:30 pm (on a voluntary best-effort basis), and occasionally opens earlier for large groups and dreary weather. Look for the Sark Museum sign with “Will Return” time at the Collinette crossroads just past carriages, and also posted…
Experience one of the most unique coasteering environments in the world. Explore some of the most awesome caves and cavern systems. Experience a true Sark island adventure including gully and cave swims, scrambling and jumps, as well as some of the most stunning views in the Channel Islands. All equipment , water and snacks are supplied. The trips will be led by qualified guides. To find out more please visit www.adventuresark.com …
Virtually no records of Sark’s profusion of wildflowers were kept before the nineteenth century. In 1564 Helier de Carteret would have found the island a windswept plateau top covered in brambles, bracken and furze (whin or gorse) with valleys devoid of trees. The gardener, Thomas Knowlton (1691 – 1781), mentioned a white foxglove in 1726. Professor CC Babington recorded 252 plants in 1838, and published his Primitiae Florae Sarnicae the…
In 1882 Victorian naturalist WA Luff listed 27 species of butterflies on Sark, and 48 moths. He mistakenly thought that though Sark was smaller than Guernsey it boasted a greater number of species, in fact, Guernsey has about twice the fauna. However, some of the rarer Guernsey species are comparatively common on Sark, e.g. Lappet moth (Gastropacha quercifolia). In his introduction to ‘Insects of Sark’ Luff pointed out that although…
Our dawn choruses in spring are full of song – in valleys such as Dixcart Valley the warbler species are mainly represented by Blackcap, Common Whitethroat, Willow Warbler and Garden Warbler. Other warblers such as Cetti’s Warbler and Icterine Warbler sometimes make an appearance. The fruity warble of the Blackbird, the loud burst of song from the undergrowth of the Wren, the repeated notes of the Song Thrush, the Chiffchaff’s…
Sark Windmill 1571 Until the 20th century, Sark’s economy was based on grain; reliable mill was essential. Domestic handmills (like the pot quern at La Seigneurie) were small and inefficient, and the monks’ water mill above Port du Moulin could not serve forty settler families. Within six years of obtaining Queen Elizabeth’s grant of Sark (1565), Helier De Carteret built a windmill. The DE Carteret arms carved on the north…
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