Our Blog - Bordeaux beaches and golf

Last time we renewed our golf membership, the group that has our golf course had added a number of new courses across France to our membership, including 4 courses near Bordeaux. We kept telling ourselves that we needed to book a trip there, but we hadn't done it yet. That changed this past week, when we went out for a 3-night trip out to the Atlantic coast near Bordeaux. We stayed at a nice B&B in the town of Lacanau, a short drive from the beach. Each morning, we took Lucy over to play on the sand.

The first day, the clouds were very ominous and I actually thought we were going to get wet during our walk. It never actually rained, but it remained pretty overcast all day. A couple pictures of the beach, the clouds, and Lucy hanging out on the sand.

If you turn up your volume, you can hear the waves crashing. The waves here were much higher and louder than I had really thought they would be. We were alone on the beach when we started, but by the time we got back, there were several surf schools that were in session. This was during a school holiday across France and so while it was fairy chilly, the surf schools seemed to be pretty busy. And with these waves, I can see why it would be a popular surf school location.

At the North end of where we walked the first day, we checked out the remains of a blockhouse that was part of the Atlantic Wall. The Atlantic Wall was an extensive system of coastal fortifications, built by the Third Reich during World War II along the western coast of Europe and intended to prevent a landing on the European continent by the Allies. At this location, it was made up of coastal artillery batteries, fire management posts, bunkers, machine gun nests, surveillance stations and minefields as early as 1942. They have since come down off the tall dunes and sit, broken, along the beach. You can see one of the guns that is still inside.

A couple pictures of a few baby deer that were eating a snack on the edge of one of the greens at the golf course we were playing.

The second morning, we went further north, near the town of Carcans. Still pretty good waves, and another bunch of surf schools starting as we ended up coming back to where we had parked.

We must have been the first people on the beach since high tide, because Lucy got to put her paw prints in the virgin sand!

I wanted to show a set of pictures with the surf schools and the large waves cresting.

Then the sunset that evening was quite red, and I thought really impressive.

We did some wine tastings on the way home, including one at this really nice chateau!

And Lucy at the end was VERY tired!!