A mostly grey and very wild day for us today, but as we are now on the slow road south, I remain forever hopeful!

Our first walk before leaving the Aire took us down onto Plage de Beg ar Vir, looking a bit wilder than yesterday and nowhere near as ‘golden’….

Our aim was to walk along the coastal path to capture the white sands of Plage du Gouerou, a little to the north of the Aire, as today we are continuing on our journey south – however the tide clearly had a different agenda and all we got to see were a couple of surfers and a lot of white surf….

What do they say ‘Time and Tide waits for no man’. Never mind we enjoyed the walk and after packing up the van we drove a mile or so up the road for our next walk along the coastal path and beaches of Plouarzel. First up was Plage de Porscuidic and Plage de l’Ile de Segal leading to a once inhabited peninsula that has now become an uninhabited island cut off at high tides…

Continuing further south along the coastal path are Plage de Kerescar and Plage de Porskaolenn – the tide is still high but they make pretty little coves with white sand even then….

The last beach of this string is the beautiful Plage de Pors Sévigné – if you lived in this village you could walk to a different beach each day of the week – what a lovely dilemma….

At this point we returned to the van and travelled a couple of miles along the Route Touristique to find parking for our walk to the next little cluster of beaches – bearing in mind we are still only an hour after high tide and the sea is choppy, I’m sure these beaches are far more spectacular at low tide and in the sunshine of course! Plage de Charrettes, Plage de Ruscumunoc and Plage de Corsen….

The next two beaches were conveniently on the coast road in little hamlets and I was able to just pop out to take a quick snap of Plage de Kerhornou and Plage de Illien….

Our next proper stop was at Plage des Blancs Sablons (another beach featuring in the top 10 best beaches of Brittany) – a beautiful long stretch of low dune backed soft white sand beach. Not a soul to be seen apart from a couple of surfers on the water but judging by the hundreds of car parking spaces all along behind the dunes a normally popular spot. Here we enjoyed a blustery walk along the beach….

In the end the wind got the better of us and we decided to start to make our way to tonight’s Aire with just a brief stop on the way at Plage de Pors Liogan on the outskirts of Le Conquet…

Another busy beach day, cut a little short again by the weather – for now though we are hunkered down against the wind and rain and hoping for a better day tomorrow.

Thoughts of the day:

• I feel almost blasé about these beautiful white beaches but believe me I am appreciating everyone of them it is just that if I travel any slower I really won’t achieve my goal for this trip – which is to visit as many as possible in the 3 months I have here.
• Sorry too tired for another one – though I’m sure I did!

Today’s stats:

• Miles driven – 18
• Miles walked – 6
• Beaches – 14
• Aire – 9.26 EHU