Did you Know?

For one small island, Jersey certainly has a number of interesting and often surprising features!

Jersey is just 9 miles wide and 5 miles long
The island has one of the largest tidal ranges in the world and at low tide its surface area increases by a fifth!
Jersey's Spring Tide is also one of the largest on the planet - a whopping 40ft!
Jersey can be reached by over 50 flights a day from regional airports in the UK and Europe, as well as by fast ferry from the south coast of England daily, and St Malo using high speed passenger and car ferries.
Men are still banned from knitting on the Island during the months of August and September, because their ancestors so loved the woolly craft that crops used to rot in the fields, unharvested. The seventeenth century government stepped in and the men could knit no more!
Jersey was a favourite holiday destination of the Father of Communism Karl Marx.
There is a prehistoric forest buried beneath the surfer's beach at St Ouen's Bay.

50 miles of Green Lanes, which carry a 15mph speed limit for cars, givin precedence to cyclists and walkers.
96 mile signposted cycle network.
The island has over 190 restaurants.
The island boasts 6 golf courses.
Cliffs that rise over 200 foot in the north of the island.
100 species of crab
240 different varieties of seaweed
300 births every day at the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust
5 million different blooms every year at the annual Battle of Flowers in August.
4 million young oysters produced every year at Royal Grouville Bay.
5 different wines produced on island.