RHH's photos with the keyword: plage

This is the last photo I'll be posting from our trip to Normandy, this from the Sorcerer's Cave at Pointe de la Courtine looking east at sunset toward La Pertuiser and beyond to the arch and needle of La Manneporte.

These are the last photos from France that I'll be posting, this from the Sorcerer's Cave at Pointe de la Courtine looking west over the Plage des Tilleuls.

Taken from the cliffs to the east this is the beach and town of Arromanches-les-Bains. We visited and explored the area and walked the beach on one of the last days we were in Normandy. We finished the day at a cafe, La Baraka, in Arromanches and had a glass of cider and a pot of mussels there. On D-Day, Arromanches was at the center of Gold Beach, one of the British landing beaches and is famous for the artificial harbor that was set up there. The harbor was made of enormous concrete caissons towed across the English Channel and sunk at Arromanches to form the harbor. Remains of the harbor, visible in the photo, destroyed by a storm after D-Day, can still be seen in the water off the cliffs and on the beach.

These are some of the concrete caissons used on D-Day and after to form an artificial harbor and piers at Arromanches. The caissons were towed across the English Channel and sunk to form the artificial harbor code-named "Mulberry." The harbor was later wrecked by a storm but part of it can still be seen out at sea and on the beach at Arromanches. Several parts are visible on the horizon just above these beached caissons.

Taken from the beach at Arromanches, where we walked the beach and took photos of the remains of the artificial harbors know as Mulberries, used on D-Day and after.

This was taken while watching the sunset from La Plage des Tilleuls, Tilleul Beach. We had walked there after walking the cliffs from Etretat to the Antifer Lighthouse.

One of t he evenings we stayed in Le Tilleul we walked to the beach and watched the sunset there while exploring the Sorcerer's Cave at the east end of the beach. This was the view east from the cave.

One of the evenings we were in the Etretat area - we stayed in Le Tilleul - we watched the sunset from the Le Tilleul Beach. The photo looks west from the Sorcerer's Cave.

These are the cliffs at Plage des Tilleuls near Etretat. We were staying in Le Tilleul and walked to the beach to watch the sunset.

The day after arriving in France and checking into our guest house in Le Tilleul we visited Etretat and walked the cliffs to the Antifer Lighthouse. This was where we started, the beach at Etretat looking toward the Porte d'Aval with an old German Bunker from World War 2 in the foreground.

I am back after a long hiatus. My mother died in November of 2022 and my father died this past April. After my mother died we spent our spare time visiting my father and when he died were involved in his affairs as executor of his estate. This past summer I had to speak at a conference in England and another in southern California and am pretty much working again full time. We are only now getting our feet back on the ground and finding time for photos. After the conference in England this past summer (Shropshire), we went on to Normandy with our oldest daughter and spent time first in the area of Etretat and then at the D-Day beaches and in Bayeux. We stayed first in Le Tilleul and then in Le Molay Littry and while staying at Le Tilleul walked the cliffs and watched the sunset one evening at Le Plage des Tilleuls. The photo was taken from Le trou de la Sortiere, a cave at the east end of the beach.