Aftermath

Last weekend's weather was amazing! We were totally mesmorised by the power of the sea. Sadly the photos we took then were a bit disappointing - it's hard keeping a camera still in those conditions! We weren't the only ones who ventured out to watch, everyone thinking it a good job that it wasn't the very high tide.

On Monday the blue skies made a welcome return and the seas were still quite rough as the first photo shows: a wall of water heading for the jetty. There were quite a few surfers there making the most of the extreme conditions - they're not really allowed to 'play' there as it is normally a boating area.

The second photo shows a lovely 'cloudscape' taken from near le Pavillon, and the 3rd photo shows some of the damage done on the main beach. The balcony you see belongs to l'Equinoxe bar (for those who know La Tranche). So much sand has gone from this area that you can now see where the road drains empty into the sea (Photo 4). It's just in front of where the life guards are in the summer but locals said they'd never seen this before. A few days earlier a box of German artillary was uncovered by the tide just along the beach!