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Last Days Before the Season Starts

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Last Days Before the Season Starts
L’Aber beach on the morning we left for the Cape
To the Cap de la Chèvre on the Crozon peninsula – a sheltered car park, from the wind, though the weather was fine – windy of course, but fine, with just a front coming from the ocean on Thursday afternoon bringing a few hours of rain and about a ten degree temperature drop.
Built in an old battery,
the memorial pays tribute to the naval air aviators who fell in the North Atlantic since the creation of the naval air in 1910. The once French battery was reused by the Germans during the construction of the Atlantic Wall. It is in the shape of an aircraft wing.
A view to the Cape.
In 1971 a modern semaphore was built here, the previous one having been destroyed during the fighting of 1944. It provides maritime and air surveillance of the Bay of Douarnenez. This bay is one of the best anchorage areas for merchant ships seeking refuge between the English Channel and the Bay of Biscay. It is also a bay that is very popular with yachts and fishing vessels.
The paths around the head of the Cape have been subject to fairly strict restoration since the 1990s due to serious overcrowding. In many places the path is wired so as hikers are deterred from wandering off piste.
Beaches only accessible by boat, or by a very precarious rope descent.
Typical Breton style house – once fisherman’s cottages, now expensive holiday lets
The Easter holiday for schools begins today, and with it, the visitor season. There have been a handful of people at the Cape in the last few days, later today, this will change. There will be a 24 hour restriction, and a day and night charge. Time to leave for me. We headed inland..
..to the town of Plounéour-Ménez, close to the highest ground in Brittany, Les Monts d’Arrée, not quite ‘back in the high life again’ but maybe up to around 350 metres over the weekend..

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