Stairs to nowhere?
Side of beef for 2 people: 1,2 kg!
Bassin d'arcachon
View from the jetty
Going out to dinner on our 3rd wedding anniversary
Sandman!
Bull on a carrousel??
Sunset
Sushi :)
Yves
Oysters!!
In Bordeaux and it's regions, they have sausage or pate with oysters.
View from our hotel room.
View to the right.
Breakfast comes to the door every morning -- be nice to have that at home, eh?
Beach, just down the road from the dune de Pyla.
An Aussie flag on a remote beach in France... what are the odds and why is it there?
Oyster farm with a vine covered patio overlooking the beach. The perfect spot for lunch!
Oysters are harvested from just beyond where the boats are in this picture, and then brought back to the farm to be stored temporarily in these concrete pools.
The oyster farmers sell their produce from this little shed.
Wonder how long it took them to grow this beautiful patio cover?
Ready for oysters now...
Lunch! These oysters have won mostly gold and some silver medals from the minister of fishing and agriculture in Paris for the last 10 years --- and they're only 12 euro a dozen with bread, butter and lemon.
No ordinary bones for this dog! He gets oysters!
Roundabouts are pretty in France -- this one was in Arcachon city centre.
About to go sailing...
Chez Pierre, where we had our anniversary dinner -- 2 dozen oysters each and a bottle of white wine! :)
We went sailing on Tip Top One, a very nice catamaran! The trip went around the basin of Arcachon, past the dune of Pyla and lasted for 2 and a half hours.
Yves (right at the back) helps to hoist up the sail.
Sunbaking up the front of the catamaran.
A yacht sails past the dune.
I want this one! (Narelle)
An oyster farm.
Tchanquee Cabanes - these abandoned houses in the basin were once home to oyster guards who watched over the farms.
Our cat had a pirate emblem.... eek!
Coming back.
A house covered in geraniums on the oyster trail, somewhere between Arcachon and Saint Andernos.
An oyster farmer's shop front.
Oyster farmer cabins.
Had our cheapest oysters ever, here! 10 euro a dozen, including a glass of wine, bread, butter and lemon!
It's not just Australians who do big things (like the big Pineapple, big Banana, big Prawn etc)!
