Jersey- Southeast coast Area: 3,210 hectares World Wetlands site Designation Date: 10.11.2000 Location: 49°09’N 02°02’W Why was the southeast coast of Jersey designated a Ramsar site? The World Wetlands site on the southeast coast of...
Read moreThere are few if any places in our small island where you can truly get away from it all. To wander freely without encountering another person, to enjoy a natural environment teeming with wildlife, to really slip the bonds of our modern world. An...
Read moreSeymour Tower lies off the south-east coast and is in the Ramsar Wetlands site. Here you’ll be more than 1 miles from the nearest house and literally on the bottom of the sea. But there is no need to bring a mask and snorkel. This area is a...
Read moreThis handy sized guide will help you identify the marine life commonly found in Jersey’s rockpools, sandflats, gullies and other coastal habitats. Buy online. £15 (free delivery within Jersey, add £2 for UK posting).
Read moreLimpets are really easy to cook writes Bev who recently stayed in Seymour tower with her children. “Send the boys out to collect but really only winter months (our first-ever exception for Seymour tower). Please ask people to take only...
Read moreThe peat beds in St Ouen’s Bay have reappeared following the huge swells and recent 12m tides. The peat beds date from between 6073 – 5848 BC when what is now St Ouen’s beach was an area of freshwater marshland and fen that had been...
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