Hurdel Baie de Somme

Located at the end of a spit in the Baie de Somme, the area is part of a nature reserve, the last vestiges of sea side holiday making and the casino at  disappear as you head north east from Cayeax sur Mer along the trail in the sand dunes.

With tide out there are vast stretches of empty beach, I didn't check tides for Hurdel but just along the coast to. the west where we were staying the rise was 8 meters, presumably similar here with some very strong tidal currents going in and out of the estuary.

The remains of a massive gun emplacement form the war, presumably the tidal erosion has undercut the foundations over the years leaving it like stranded wreckage form a Start Wars movie.

The village is still active with some fishing boats,pleasure boats and yachts tucked further up the river and day trip boats taking visitors out to see the seals with

 To give a little scale to the gun emplacement