Our Blog - Bretagne Trip - Summer 2021 - Gavres Beach

Here we have the beach at Gavres, which is an interesting place. It is out on a peninsula and as you drive to the town and beach parking, you go through lots of areas that are fenced off military properties. It is located at the northern end of the Gâvres-Quiberon dune, the largest dune corridor in Brittany. It extends from Gâvres to the fort of Penthièvre at Quiberon. We had visited several different beaches along this large dune area. It is quite an isolated town, and was even more isolated before a road was put in linking it to the next town. Before the road, it was a little peninsula linked by a narrow dune corridor, 7 kilometers long, which was hardly ever used because it wasn't easy to walk on the sand for 7 kilometers. Therefore, the people on the peninsula lived like islanders. Low tide again, and the beach was actually quite wide.

As you can imagine, there are lots of shellfish around, especially mussels. These are 'wild' mussels that were growing on the side of one of the retaining walls. At the entry to many beach areas, there are signs that tell you how large the mussels must be before you can remove them (to take them home and eat them). As we were leaving, it was low tide and there were tons of people out in a mudflat area looking for shellfish.