sealord > At low water a painted topshell, Calliostoma zizyphinum, nestles in the stems of the athecate hydroid, Tubularia indivisa, on a wall of the Gouliot Caves on the west coast of Sark, Bailiwick of Guernsey, Channel Islands,
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sealord > Sark's Seashore Caves >  Botryllus schlosseri Gouliot caves 120907 948 smg
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.
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sealord > The sponge, Pachymatisma johnstonia, grows on a wall of the Gouliot caves on Sark's west coast.  I visited the cave system during a low spring tide on the 12 September 2007.  The Gouliot Caves were designated a RAMSAR site in April 2007.
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sealord > A natural tunnel runs through the Mouton headland on Sark's west coast.  This image was taken by holding down the camera on the top of a boulder and using a 13 second time exposure.
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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
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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
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At low water a painted topshell, Calliostoma zizyphinum, nestles in the stems of the athecate hydroid, Tubularia indivisa, on a wall of the Gouliot Caves on the west coast of Sark, Bailiwick of Guernsey, Channel Islands,
File No. 120907 944
©RLLord
fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > At low water a painted topshell, Calliostoma zizyphinum, nestles in the stems of the athecate hydroid, Tubularia indivisa, on a wall of the Gouliot Caves on the west coast of Sark, Bailiwick of Guernsey, Channel Islands,
File No. 120907 944
©RLLord
fishinfo@guernsey.net
At low water a painted topshell, Calliostoma zizyphinum, nestles in the stems of the athecate hydroid, Tubularia indivisa, on a wall of the Gouliot Caves on the west coast of Sark, Bailiwick of Guernsey, Channel Islands,
File No. 120907 944
©RLLord
fishinfo@guernsey.net
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