Friday 14 January 2011

Dune du Pilat

After a spending last night on the Aire at Le Mothe St Heray which we eventually found despite an inaccurate GPS position trying to park us in the village square, today we had an early start and drove to the Dune du Pilat which is the largest sand dune in europe.

Famous last words en-route to the dune: "don't worry there's a set of steps to the top"......... oops - we arrived to find the steps were piled up in the trees at the bottom!


Over 100m high - not an easy climb on slippery sand!


Em halfway up


We eventually made it to the top


It's difficult the show the scale of this sand dune - 3km long, 500m wide and over 100m tall


Mind the edge!

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