Jane Sharkey

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  • May 13, 2026

    Embracing Change: Life on Lundy

    Embracing Change: Life on Lundy

    Life on Lundy Island rarely goes exactly to plan. From cancelled sailings and fog-bound flights to unexpected walks and a surprise decision to stay for the season, this is a story about weather, uncertainty and the adventures found in changing plans.

  • May 8, 2026

    Reflections at Benjamin’s Chair: A Lundy Experience

    Reflections at Benjamin’s Chair: A Lundy Experience

    Reflecting on life on Lundy, this blog explores how encounters with visitors become embodied memories through walking, place, and shared experience.

  • May 4, 2026

    Creating Pilgrimage Routes: Speaking at Walk Listen Create

    Creating Pilgrimage Routes: Speaking at Walk Listen Create

    Tuesday 5th May I’m giving a talk as part of Walk Listen Create; an international network of walking artists, researchers and practitioners. The session is called Creating Pilgrimage Routes and it’s an opportunity to share some of the thinking and practice that has been at the heart of my work for several years.

  • May 4, 2026

    Spotlight on Island Life: Airing on More4

    Spotlight on Island Life: Airing on More4

    Our Tiny Islands on More4 features Lundy.

  • April 26, 2026

    Finding Stillness at the Battery: A Personal Reflection

    Finding Stillness at the Battery: A Personal Reflection

    Sitting at the top of the Battery is a favoured place to sit and find stillness—when the wind is not westerly! The battery is not too far from the village, so It’s an ideal place to have an alfresco lunch – you can get there within 20 minutes and feel that you have ventured out.…

  • April 23, 2026

    Swimming Through Time at Baggy Point

    Swimming Through Time at Baggy Point

    Although I live in a wild, remote place, there are still spots on the mainland that offer that same sense of exposure and wildness. One of those is Baggy Point, near Croyde. I went for a ‘wild swim’ there this week. Swimming at Baggy isn’t something you stumble into — you need to understand the…

  • April 22, 2026

    The Sentinels of Lundy: Guardians of the Landing Bay

    The Sentinels of Lundy: Guardians of the Landing Bay

    Discover the Sentinels of Lundy, two striking rock formations in Landing Bay that stand as quiet guardians of the island’s history, landscape, and changing shoreline.

  • April 15, 2026

    A Magical Tree on Lundy’s Lower East Path

    A Magical Tree on Lundy’s Lower East Path

    A Tree that finds you There is a tree on Lundy’s East path, that many people know – even though it isn’t marked on any map. You will find it as you walk along the Lower East Path from Millcombe. There is an opening in the path — and then suddenly it is there, reaching…

  • April 3, 2026

    Springtime on Lundy: The Enigmatic Lundy Boggit

    Springtime on Lundy: The Enigmatic Lundy Boggit

    This Easter on Lundy, follow a different kind of trail. The Lundy Boggit leaves no eggs — only quiet signs for those who know where to look.

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