Heading up the coast

We are travelling through a very different landscape now. The Landes area is full of pine trees and this is what you see for miles on end.
We left the last campsite on Monday and drove a relatively short distance to an aire on the coast at Contis Plage, a tiny place in the middle of nowhere, not many inhabitants at this time of year, but it will come alive during the summer.

This suited us fine....we had the whole of this beautiful beach to ourselves.

What a pity we don't do wind surfing! The waves here are really powerful.

By this time we were regretting not having put our sunhats on. We'd had quite a long walk along the beach, so we made our way back to the aire.

You can make out the campervans in the distance from the top of the sand dune. We had a free night here, as it's officially open only from June 1st. Nevertheless, there was a toilet block and water too available.