Spring has definitely arrived and summer is just around the corner. With the weather turning nicer we decided to head down southwest to the beaches of Arcachon! We picked a beautiful Saturday and caught the early train for a daytrip to the beach.
Here is a look out at the one of the piers.
It was a bright day and still a little chilly with the cool breeze. No swimming for sure and definitely not shorts weather (although Katie was wearing them).
A picture from the pier down the beach.
Arcachon was a really beautiful beach and I was surprised of the length. We kept strolling down the beach and it kept going.
We set up our picnic on the beach, ate, read, and fell asleep on the beach for most of the day. Here was the view.
Arcachon is known for it huge dune called Dune du Pyla. This thing is monsterous! It reaches a a height of 107 meters (351 feet tall). Katie and I both thought that the dune was at Arcachon but we walked along the beach all day from one end to the other but saw no huge dune. Should be obvious to see, and we were wondering if we were mistaken and it was at some other town. As we were walking back towards the train station, we stopped along a street with a bunch of shops and saw postcard with the Dune du Pyla on it. Sure enough, it was in Arcachon. We couldn't come here and not go! We headed to the train station to see what bus we needed to take to get there, hopped on and took a 25 minute ride to the dune. We got there as the sun was going down and noticed that there was a long line for the bus. Katie immediately thought, maybe we should check when the last bus was....yeah, so the one we took was the last one going back. Not wanting to be stranded, we hopped right back on the bus only taking in a quick glimpse of the massive dune and then headed back to catch our train to Bordeaux. Here is the best picture I got. You can see part of the dune in the middle of the picture in between the trees...a bit of a small mountain!
Here is a look out at the one of the piers.
It was a bright day and still a little chilly with the cool breeze. No swimming for sure and definitely not shorts weather (although Katie was wearing them).
A picture from the pier down the beach.
Arcachon was a really beautiful beach and I was surprised of the length. We kept strolling down the beach and it kept going.
Made me remember my times at the Dunes Lake shore along Lake Michigan back home. Only this place was cleaner.
Arcachon is known for it huge dune called Dune du Pyla. This thing is monsterous! It reaches a a height of 107 meters (351 feet tall). Katie and I both thought that the dune was at Arcachon but we walked along the beach all day from one end to the other but saw no huge dune. Should be obvious to see, and we were wondering if we were mistaken and it was at some other town. As we were walking back towards the train station, we stopped along a street with a bunch of shops and saw postcard with the Dune du Pyla on it. Sure enough, it was in Arcachon. We couldn't come here and not go! We headed to the train station to see what bus we needed to take to get there, hopped on and took a 25 minute ride to the dune. We got there as the sun was going down and noticed that there was a long line for the bus. Katie immediately thought, maybe we should check when the last bus was....yeah, so the one we took was the last one going back. Not wanting to be stranded, we hopped right back on the bus only taking in a quick glimpse of the massive dune and then headed back to catch our train to Bordeaux. Here is the best picture I got. You can see part of the dune in the middle of the picture in between the trees...a bit of a small mountain!
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