Nature
You do not need to be an astronomer to appreciate dark skies; they inspire poets, artists and photographers. However, if you are in any way, shape or form interested in what lies beyond our home planet, Sark is a place where you can really appreciate our dark skies. You don’t need a telescope to see the wonderful display of stars above Sark. You can see a host of stars and…
Sunday 24th April sees the start of our glorious Wildflower Fortnight! It kicks off with a Guided Walk in Little Sark. Book at the Visitor Centre 01481 832345, and meet at La Sablonnerie at 2pm. Tickets cost £4/£2 children. Our flowers are looking just fabulous, so come and see what all the fuss is about and why we celebrate them! Please keep tab on all of the Guided Walks during…
The nocturnal world of Sark’s marvellous marine life features on the BBC’s Autumnwatch series this week. Resident wildlife photographer and film-maker Sue Daly reveals the colourful and fascinating creatures that come out after dark near Maseline harbour including prowling lobsters, hunting cuttlefish and the curious John dory. “Autumn is a great time for night diving,” explains Sue. “The sea is at its mildest, it goes dark much earlier and there’s…
Sark Community Blooms is a small informal group who got together early 2015 with the short term goal of making minor environmental improvements to our already beautiful island as well as doing a bit of tidying up where required. The goal is that a more formalised group will enter Sark in the Floral Guernsey competition in 2016. Meetings are already taking place to make our goal become a reality. If you…
After more than a year of planning and fundraising by Sark Astronomy Society (SAstroS), the island now has its very own observatory. The specially designed building was pre-fabricated in Norfolk by a company called Home Observatory UK and delivered to Sark less than a week ago. Since then the three-person team of Gareth, Julie and Nathan have built it and installed the telescope on a site already prepared near the…
Clear skies last night meant that Sark was the perfect place to enjoy fabulous views of a rare blood moon. This magical event is the combination of a super moon, when the moon’s orbit is closest to earth and so appears 8% larger, and a full lunar eclipse when the earth is positioned almost exactly between the moon and sun. At just after 01.00 the earth’s shadow began to appear…
Family friendly Sark Sark is the stuff of Famous Five and Swallow and Amazons. Wonderful memories are made here, by adults and children alike. Sark offers that old-fashioned type of freedom, with no cars, no man made roads, a much slower pace of life than the one you leave behind and of course it’s teeming with natural history. Once you get up to the top of Harbour Hill on the…
Peter Guille had a strange surprise when he was out fishing this week off the Blanchard Reef when he noticed a live seahorse in the mouth of a pollack he caught. He removed the seahorse and put it back in the sea but when he gutted the less fortunate pollack he found that its stomach was full of young seahorses and a few of them were still alive. He put…
It’s been a good year so far for butterflies and the most common ones on the wing at the moment are the Holly Blues. These small butterflies love Heather and with both Bell and Ling Heather in flower at the moment on the cliffs and L’Eperquerie Common there are plenty of these gorgeous, shimmering butterflies to spot. Bumblebees are also attracted to Heather so if you sit quietly next to…
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