4th July 2024 – Quiberon, Brittany, France

With a spectacular rugged coast to the west and beautiful sandy beaches to the east, the Quiberon Peninsula offers 14 km of varied landscapes. We spent most of the day on the rugged west coast enjoying a walk along coastal paths which were quite accessible to us and having a leisurely lunch in the very popular “Le Vivier” seafood restaurant. Sitting on the terrace of the restaurant we had close up views of herring gulls which had clearly learnt their manners from British seaside resorts.

Herring gull

Spectacular scenery of la Côte Sauvage

Herring gull

Not many other birds (except for cormorants) but plenty of flora.

Some sort of thyme I think

Sea campion

Sea thrift (not so pink now)

A different type of thyme

… and these lovely yellow flowers (which one search suggested Italian hawksbeard)

Honeysuckle
A parasitic plant

Even the dock was quite vivid with a little sunshine on it.

Squabling gulls

A quite imperious herring gull

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