Set in the centrally located yet quiet, secluded Gardens of Clos de la Tour the 4 Star, Gold Award winning GARDEN APARTMENT is close to The Avenue, St Peters Church, most beaches and cliff paths plus local eateries. Offering a home away from home this 1 bedroom apartment has its own entrance and being situated on the ground floor offers easy access to the south facing gardens which are perfect…
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Spacious self catering accommodation for two in delightful self-contained wing of owners’ West Coast home. Superb views in natural surroundings. Downstairs sitting/dining room and kitchen, TV and central heating. Upstairs double bedded room with en-suite shower room and loo. For further information please visit our website www.closdesaignie.com
Islanders and visitors gathered at the Island Hall on New Year’s Day to celebrate the start of 2015 and raise some funds at the same time. Sharon, Sandra and their team at the Hall had laid on all kinds of games and a raffle to entertain both adults and children. The event raised £??? which will be used to buy a bench in memory of Dave Melling who sadly died…
A charming introduction to Sark Island Take a look at Sark above and below the waves.
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…
From time to time, groups of bottlenose dolphins appear on our shores following shoals of fish, much to the delight of both visitors and locals. They are mostly seen around the east coast and have sometimes escorted the island’s ferries from the Bec du Nez all the way into the harbour, much to the enjoyment of those on board. Over the last decade or so dolphin numbers appear to…
Promenades en calèche. Des calèches se trouvent au carrefour de la Collinette au haut de la montée du port, les départs et les retours ont lieu à l’aire de stationnement qui s’y trouve. Demandez le prix et la durée de la promenade aux cochers avant le départ. Vélos, Il existe trois loueurs de vélo: A-B Cycles: prendre à droite au carrefour avant l’Avenue, et encore à droite au génie bleu…
The Sunfish is named after their habit of ‘sunbathing’ on the surface of the sea. These ocean wanderers can grow to be several metres across but feed almost exclusively on jellyfish. They are native to tropical seas but are occasionally seen around the British Isles although usually much later in the summer. George Guille recalls seeing a basking shark: “The sea was really calm,” explains George, “so at first I noticed just…
Ornithologists Paul and Catherine Veron were in Sark recently for the first of their two annual visits to assess the island’s seabird population. The visit was timed to ring the chicks of Herring and Greater Black-backed Gulls and the couple will return in July to ring Lesser Black-backed Gull chicks that breed a little later. The work is part of a long-term study into seabird numbers around the Channel Islands…
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June 24, 2022