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Étretat
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Upper Normandy, France 23 August 2008
Treport, Upper Normandy, 22
August 2008
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A Google Earth search
established the famous cliffs are to the south of the town so a route
was taken from the new car parking on the Le Havre road, that lands one
on the coast just on the southern boundary of the golf course -perfect!
The lighthouse is a mile or so to the south and, at low, tide, a fine
wave-cut platform is the first feature of the day! Beyond is the
breakwater of the tanker terminal at Havre-Antifer. |
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A promontory promises a
view to north and south. |
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You can climb out
on the promontory, seen above, to get a view southwards, and of
the beach, with its cliff fall.
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The Manneporte, the second arch to the
south, as seen from the promontory to its south.
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The Manneporte's scale is
illustrated by the people on top f the feature, and, in the bay,
a waterfall results from seepage down to an impervious
layer. The beach is pebble and cobble sized. |
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More views to the south, including a
wave-cut notch, right. |
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The cliff edge is
often fluted by deep gullies, and a thin topsoil masks the upper
slopes of the massive chalk. |
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The Manneporte reveals
well-defined strata in the chalk, a cobble beach .. and a
glimpse of the Porte d'Amante
through its arch. |
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Looking back to the south an arch in the
shape of a keyhole is revealed ... and the close up shows steel ladders
for people to clamber along the beach and get by these rock obstacles.
On the right is a series of wave-cut notches. |
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The Manneporte also boasts
ironwork, with what looks like an attendant standing by! |
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Looking back to the south and a trio of
para-gliders approach over the lighthouse! |
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The 'Jewel in the
Crown' at Étretat
is undoubtedly the Porte d'Amante, with its filigree arch and
the brilliant white stack of the Needle of Arsene Lupin.
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Porte d'Amante in any scale
to your requirements! The cliff top gullying in the chalk is
very noticeable here. |
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The people who come to Étretat are
at least partially there to see the coastal features, so they make their
way up the cliffs is some numbers. They also clamber along at beach
level, over the steel ladders and indicate a culture distinctly less
'elf 'n safety' than that which prevails in Britain! Erosion of bare
soils can be severe, but on the Porte d'Amante the whole
surface has been covered in rough concrete! |
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South and northwards shots
indicate wave-cut platforms and intermittent beaches. |
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Porte d'Amante. |
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The Manneporte. |
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The Manneporte, left, and the
approach to the concrete-covered Porte d'Amante. |
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People on the Porte d'Amante. |
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People mill around on the Porte d'Amante,
whilst the Needle of Arsene Lupin
clearly awaits its moment of stardom! |
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The town of Étretat
and the Porte d'Amont
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Amant Door. |
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Chambre des
Demoiselles. |
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The wave-cut platform is
striking from the Porte d'Amante, and seems to have been the base of
some industrial or military construction, left. |
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Views of Étretat from the Chambre des
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Étretat beach and town. The concrete
groyne emphasises the tide lines on the steep beach. |
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Étretat beach is of cobbles
and is steep and broken by tide lines. On the hill to the north
is a monument to
the last flight of Charles
Nungesser and François Coli in 1927, trying to fly the
Atlantic east-west, but whom were never seen again. There is a
museum nearby. |
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More of the beach, the church on
the headland and the town. |
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Porte d'Aval, and the Porte d'Amont
(right).
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Beach, cliffs and church. |
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Behind the cobble beach was an angles sea
wall that allowed dinghies to be winched up and secured. |
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Tourism is multi-layered here,
and includes passive as well as active tourism! |
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A beach restaurant has an unusual
base in a thatched boat hull! |
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France Étretat Manneporte
Porte d'Amante Porte d'Aval Porte d'Amont coast features cliffs arches
stacks wave cut platform beach chalk tourism management |
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