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This image gallery shows some of the marine life of Sark's coastal caves and gullies. Sark is the third largest island in the Bailiwick of Guernsey after Guernsey and Alderney. It is a part of the Channel Islands, which includes also the largest island of Jersey.

More information on Sark's Gouliot Caves can be found in a publication produced by La Societe Guernesiaise. You can find out how to purchase this publication by visiting http://www.biologicalrecordscentre.gov.gg/files/gouliot.html

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sealord > This expanded beadlet anemone, Actinia equina, was in a large pebble and cobble filled pool in the Gouliot cave system on the west coast of Sark, Channel Islands, Great Britain. The Gouliot caves that are filled with seawater at high tide run through the Gouliot headland. They are famous for their large population of closely spaced beadlet anemones. Sark's Gouliot caves were made a RAMSAR site in April 2007. File No. 120907 952 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > This image shows at low tide a small area of one of the vertical walls of the Gouliot cave system on Sark's west coast. The walls are covered in the beadlet anemone, Actinia equina. The Gouliot Caves were designated a RAMSAR site in April 2007. Photographed on the 12 September 2007. File No. 120907 893 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > Some of the vertical walls of the Gouliot cave system on the west coast of Sark, Bailiwick of Guernsey, Channel Islands are carpeted with beadlet anemones, Actinia equina. The green anemones are considered by some researchers to be a separate species, Actinia prasina. Sark's Gouliot cave system was designated a RAMSAR site in April 2007. Photographed on the 12 September 2007. File No. 120907 934 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > At low water I photographed these withdrawn plumose anemones, Metridium senile, located in a recess of a wall in the Gouliot caves, Sark. These anemones are found at the base of the cave wall whereas the beadlet anemones, Actinia equina, are found higher up the wall as they are on the open seashore. These plumose anemones probably don't tolerate as well as the beadlet anemones the fast water flow through the cave system so they are found only in recesses and depressions in the cave wall. Photographed on 12 September 2007. File No. 120907 896 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > The breadcrumb sponge, Halichondria panicea, can appear green or orange. It grows on the walls of the Gouliot cave system in Sark, Bailiwick of Guernsey. The Gouliot Caves were designated a RAMSAR site in April 2007. This cave system can be visited on foot during big low spring tides. Photographed on the 12 September 2007. File No. 120907 967 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
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The breadcrumb sponge, Halichondria panicea, can appear green or orange. It grows on the walls of the Gouliot cave system in Sark, Bailiwick of Guernsey. The Gouliot Caves were designated a RAMSAR site in April 2007. This cave system can be visited on foot during big low spring tides. Photographed on the 12 September 2007.
File No. 120907 967
©RLLord
fishinfo@guernsey.net
> The breadcrumb sponge, Halichondria panicea, can appear green or orange. It grows on the walls of the Gouliot cave system in Sark, Bailiwick of Guernsey. The Gouliot Caves were designated a RAMSAR site in April 2007. This cave system can be visited on foot during big low spring tides. Photographed on the 12 September 2007. File No. 120907 967 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
The breadcrumb sponge, Halichondria panicea, can appear green or orange. It grows on the walls of the Gouliot cave system in Sark, Bailiwick of Guernsey. The Gouliot Caves were designated a RAMSAR site in April 2007. This cave system can be visited on foot during big low spring tides. Photographed on the 12 September 2007.
File No. 120907 967
©RLLord
fishinfo@guernsey.net
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