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<\/a>Near one of the camp sites that I looked at a while ago, there’s another pile of dunes with a beach beyond it.<\/p>\nNegotiating the vipers (because there are signs warning us that they are about) I climbed over the dunes and found myself a cosy little niche in between a couple of dunes, relatively-well protected out of the wind.<\/p>\n
And here I had my lunch – the usual vegan cheese, tomato and lettuce sandwiches with that salad dressing that I bought the other day
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That’s a walled city by the way, up there on the promontory. The old town of Granville. And there are some barracks over there dating from the 16th or 17th Century, long-abandoned and now being converted into apartments.<\/p>\n That’s another place where I’ve tried to contact an estate agent but, as you might expect, no-one ever called me back. The islands are inhabited, as you can probably tell from the buildings that you can see out there. A couple of hundred, if that, in the winter, but several thousand in the summer when all of the grockles arrive.<\/p>\n A couple of sailings each day out there in the summer, but in the winter you are lucky if there are a couple each week. It’s quite a regular occurrence when we are in Canada or near a main shipping lane, but this is the first time that I’ve ever seen anything worth recording in the Bay of Mont St Michel.<\/p>\n No idea what it is, of course, but it’s an impressive sight all the same. I only hope that there are more of them as time goes by. And people down there working on them too. <\/p>\n But don’t believe anything that anyone tells you about oysters. It’s a myth. I had 12 on my wedding night, but only 9 of them worked! There’s an apartment for sale in there, and I had a look at the photos in the estate agent’s window a couple of days ago. It’s quite cheap for what it is, and that’s what is worrying. I’ve heard about buildings like this all over the holiday resorts of France.<\/a>There’s a beautiful view from here right down the beach, past that miserable building that I visited a few weeks ago, and down to Granville and the head of the promontory. <\/p>\n
<\/p>\n<\/a>There’s an even better view from here across the bay to the Iles de Chausey. And what I’ve done is to mess about with the colours and the contrast to enhance the differences in the topography, and you can see everything so much more clearly.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n<\/a>Now when was the last time that we featured a “ship of the day” on here?<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n<\/a>Anyway, that’s enough of the excitememnt for just now. It’s the time of the year when the tide is going out further and further, and this is the first time that I’ve been able to see the oyster beds as they emerge from the sea.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n<\/a>There’s a weird building here at the foot of the cliffs. It’s a block of apartments that dates probably from the 1980s or thereabouts and it looks as if they ran out of money before they had quite finished it.<\/p>\n
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