Sark's Sea Caves and Hidden Coast
Below the cliff paths is another island: caves, pools and hidden history.
Most people first meet Sark from above, the cliff paths and the view out to sea. Below them is another island: tidal caves, a pool the sea only half reveals, and the people, from a mathematician to a Victorian rescue party, who came to it from below.
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Victor Hugo's son went swimming on Sark. An octopus followed him.
Victor Hugo saw an octopus pursue his son Charles while he bathed in a Sark cave in 1857. Toilers of the Sea followed nine years later.
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Alan Turing on Sark: a holiday before the legend
Alan Turing holidayed on Sark in 1931 and 1932, with a party that stayed at La Ville and bathed at the Adonis and Venus pools.
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Before she ruled Sark, Sibyl Collings climbed and swam around it
Before becoming Dame of Sark in 1927, Sibyl Collings climbed and swam around the island's coast despite having unequal leg length.
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The naked woman who helped put Sark on the map
William Toplis painted Sark's Venus Pool for decades before the Royal Academy exhibited his Bath of Venus in 1910.
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Three Women in Sark's Gouliot Caves, 1880
In 1880 three women replied to a clergyman's Guernsey Star letter after they had already made the descent into Sark's Great Gouliot.
Getting to Sark
The things guests always ask before they come, in one place: the ferry, the luggage system, what to pack, and what the first evening feels like.
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