Rock Hopping #countrykids

We really enjoyed the beach in France. We managed to go a couple of times and do a ‘proper’ beach day. As in, swimming and surfing, playing in the sand, eating sandy food and being chased up the beach by the rapidly advancing tide. It was beautifully hot on so many of those days but as is the way with the atlantic coast the breeze keeps you cool.

But on a few other days we went to a more rocky and rockpool part of the coastline. I was really amazed just how long the kids enjoyed looking for little crabs and fish in the pools. We had toted the fishing nets all the way from the UK so we were determined that they get an outing. Lots of the French seem to be out near the shore looking for muscles i think and there was a good many kids and families all slowly walking through the networks of little pools examining what was living there.

There were a couple of hard learnt lessons, like you need to wear your shoes when you are walking on wet rocks otherwise you slip..oh and a toddler and deep (ish) pools of water mean wet clothes. 😉

There were little craggy beaches hidden amongst the rocks with dank, eerie caves that i just peered into but the kids explored with enthusiasm. Of course if there is rocks then you can bet that it wont be too long till the OH is dangling from one on his fingertips. Once a rock climber always a rock climber. 😉

It was still lovely and warm and as we had a few of our kids down with a little bit of a dodgy tummy that afternoon it was a nice low key activity to do before we headed back for tea.

No fish to cook though!! lol