One of her most lucrative shells was the appropriatelynamed sand dollar. The Sand Dollar Motel and Marina on Grand Isle was a frenzy of activity on Friday as boaters scrambled to get their vessels to higher ground and marina employees secured the premises.
Still a place of pilgrimage even in these more secular times, the Holy Island of Lindisfarne is the very fountain head of England's Christian heritage.It was on Holy Island that the early Christian message was honed and distributed to a largely pagan Northumberland.indisfarne Priory was the home of St Cuthbert and the birthplace of a true national treasure-the Lindisfarne Gospels, a unique illuminated Latin manuscript of the gospels of Mark, Luke and John.
Lindisfarne Castle on Holy Island. Skim over the sands and causeway to Holy Island and prepare to enter another world. Lying just a few miles off the Northumberland coast, Holy Island as seen on Robson Green's Tales from Northumberland is cut off twice-daily from the rest of the world by fast-moving tides.Both an island and a picturesque village, Holy Island carries a wealth of history within its tidal walls.side its historical pedigree, the Holy Island of Lindisfarne has an exciting array of wildlife. Its island status protects tidal mudflats, saltmarshes and dunes which together form the Lindisfarne National Nature Reserve. Rare plants and an abundance of food supplies attract visiting birds from thousands of miles.