Still grey and still windy but pleasant enough as we took a morning walk down to the sea front to see what the beaches look like at low tide.

We joined the beach at Plage du Cormier which was totally submerged yesterday….

And wandered all the way along to Plage de Tharon with just a glimmer of sunshine catching the carrelets and highlighting our way…

Feeling suitably refreshed we returned to the van and were soon packed up and on our way, continuing our journey south in pursuit of some better weather.

By mid afternoon we were parked up in our Aire for the night, just south of La Rochelle in the small coastal resort of Chatelaillon-Plage and were soon out in pursuit of said beach…

A nice long pink sandy beach even though the tide is in – nicer sand here than at St Michel and the resort looks fairly new or has certainly seen some significant recent growth – smart enough, in a new, freshly painted kind of way but not very charming and it isn’t tempting us to stay a while – our journey continues.

Thoughts of the day:

• I’m not sure that chasing the weather this late on in the year is actually going to pay off but in reality, I just want to take it slow for the next few weeks by some lovely beaches, so that is our revised goal and I hope that Côte de d’Argent (the silver coast) to which we shall be arriving tomorrow, will tick that box.
• I can’t believe that we have already been here for 2 months and that soon we must start our journey home – but not just yet!

Today’s stats:

• Miles driven – 118
• Miles walked – 6
• Beaches – 3
• Aire – £12.01