Sark: See
1 The Avenue is reached at the top of Harbour Hill from the pier. Most of the island amenities are around here. Many of the buildings are pre-fabs, a curious mix of modern and Butlins. Rue Lucas branches north.
Sark Museum on Rue Lucas has closed down, but the Old Island Hall on Chasse-Marais sometimes has exhibitions of bygone life.
2 La Seigneurie, Sark GY10 1SF, ☏ +44 1481 832208. Apr-Oct: daily 10AM-6PM. Home of the Seigneur of Sark since 1730, but the house interior is not open to the public, you come for the magnificent walled garden. There are guided tours of the garden Wednesday at 11:30. Adult £6, with tour £8. (updated Sep 2022)
3 The Window in the Rock overlooks the coast directly west of La Seigneurie. In the 1850s the Rev Collings was Seigneur, and blasted this tunnel: perhaps partly to facilitate haulage of goods from the beach below, perhaps work creation, and not least the fun of using newly-invented explosives to improve the view. (This was almost as popular with Victorian landowners on rocky terrain as blasting at grouse.) The tunnel opens onto a sheer drop, keep a tight hold of the children and dog.
4 L’Eperquerie is the north tip of Grande Sark, embellished by a Buddhist rock carving inscribed in 2000. It faces west to Guernsey island and Herm, while just north is the islet of La Grune.
5 Sark Henge was constructed in 2015 to mark 450 years since the island was feu'd to Hellier de Carteret. Nine one-eyed megaliths surround a stone disc, all symbolic of this and that.
6 La Coupée is the giddy causeway between Grande and Little Sark, only 300 feet (91 m) long but somewhat more than that straight down if you stumbled over either edge. It was built in 1945 by German POWs; before that the inhabitants had to scramble over the perilous ridge, clinging on against winds that tried to hurl them into the abyss.
Little Sark once safely across La Coupée is almost anticlimactic, a quiet farming landscape. The big draw is the excellent La Sablonnerie Hotel and Restaurant, see Sleep. Below the cliffs, Venus pool (south tip) and Adonis pool (west tip) are natural bathing pools replenished by the sea. Also south are a large Neolithic dolmen and the remains of 7 silver mines worked in the mid-19th century.
8 L'Etac is the islet seen south of Little Sark. Scuba diving trips sometimes visit, as the strong currents promote marine life.
Caves: the cliffs of Sark are riddled with caves close to the waterline and only accessible at low tide. Check the tide times here. Good examples are the Boutique Caves at the north end of the island, and the Gouliot Caves on the west coast.
9 Brecqhou, but you only view it from the west coast of Grande Sark. This is the one that all the fuss was about, separated from Sark by 100 yards of channel, millions of pounds of litigation, and fiercely defended private ownership, but not by any political autonomy. …