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,…
Monthly Archives: December 2016
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…
1. With thanks to Sue Daly, the Sark Museum is featured in a 4-page article in “Sark Life” magazine, No. 50, Summer 2018: “From the first treasured finds of a small boy, Danny’s collection now paints a vivid and intriguing portrait of life on Sark in the past and an hour or two can easily be spent among these fascinating displays. It deserves more space, but, crammed as…
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