The plage de la Mine d’Or Pénestin !!!

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Here I am again on my road warrior ways in my beautiful Morbihan, This is heaven with so many and long coast and pretty towns alongside, There are so many do not think will see them all in my lifetime !! Anyway, I keep on trying and besides some familiar ones. I dwell into new ones visited but this one is a repeat visit to Pénestin. I have written a bit on Pénestin before in my blog, this time was an expanded visit. Let me give you my take on the plage de la Mine d’Or Pénestin !!!  Hope you enjoy the post as I.

The town of Pénestin is located in my beautiful department 56 of Morbihan, in the my lovely region of Bretagne. It is part of the country of Guérande, one of the traditional countries of Brittany. With its 25 km of coastline, Pénestin is the southernmost town in Morbihan.  

The plage de la Mine d’Or beach is 2 km long, a real paradise for paragliders. It is also the only take-off site in Morbihan. Thrill seekers take advantage of favorable winds here and soar from the top of the cliffs that reach up to 10 meters high. The The Mine d’Or site is unique in France for its ecological interest. Its cliff bears witness to the passage of an ancient river, which flowed through a valley that has now disappeared. A border of this paleovalley is visible to the north of the cliff. The cliff which overhangs it constitutes a geological site of international interest, for its fossil river estuary. The wonderful beach and cliff of the gold mine or Mine d’Or which overlooks the beach of choice of holiday makers and which gave it its name. The cliff was exploited as a gold mine in the 19C, hence its name! At the time, it aroused the wildest hopes but was closed during WWI for lack of sufficient return. No gold!

Penestin plage de la mine d'or right side aug22

Penestin plage de la mine d'or left side aug22

The plage de la Mine d’Or beach therefore actually takes its name from gold mining between the end of the 19C and the beginning of the 20C. The gold was not in a mine, but in the open air, in the sand in the form of flakes. However, the washing of tons of sands only allowed to extract a small quantity of gold, and this was stopped at the start of the Great War (WWI). The cliffs of the Mine d’Or beach to the west of the town of Pénestin, 10 to 15 meters high and whose verticality is sometimes broken by scree, are characterized by their copper colour. They offer over nearly 1,800 meters a roughly N-S oriented section of a sedimentary system, called “Pénestin Formation”, This is wonderful and the beach superbe ! We love it !!

Penestin plage de la mine d'or right side closer aug22

Penestin plage de la mine d'or left side closer aug22

 The town of Pénestin on the mine d’or :https://www.mairie-penestin.com/patrimoine_geologique_,la_mine_or-4873.html

The fav site plages tv on the mine d’or beach : https://en.plages.tv/detail/mine-d-or-beach-penestin-56760

The local La Boule-Guérande tourist office on Pénestin : https://www.labaule-guerande.com/penestin-camoel-ferel.html

 There you go folks, another dandy road warrior ride in my beautiful Morbihan ! It really is beautiful, Once again by Pénestin and still think it merits more time, Again, hope you enjoy this post on the Plage de la Mine of Pénestin !!! as I.

And remember, happy travels, good health, and many cheers to all !!!

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I am a lover of travels to Europe , Americas , Africa and Asia as well ,who like to share my experiences of the last 53 years with the world, visiting so far 81 countries; living in 6, working in 5, and Citizen of 4, speaking fluently 4 languages. I can deal with sports especially football/soccer and love music, arts, wine collector/drinker, and go out to restaurants, and just visit the world. My background comes all the way from Candelaria and Pajara in Tenerife, Spain where my grandparents came from ;not knowing each other then, to Punta Brava, west of Havana, Cuba. There , my parents born in Cuba met and later on I was born there too. 100% guanche (annexed Tenerife to Spain on April 10 ,1496). I left Cuba as many have to Madrid, Spain where I lived for 4 years. Then, move to Perth Amboy ,New Jersey USA (living there 13 yrs) ; where I completed high school, became a US Citizen, learned to drive a car, and learned English. Afterward, went to the university in Florida, ERAU, and upon graduation decided to moved there to Ormond by the Sea, near Daytona Beach, finally moving North Miami, then Hialeah, then another moved to Silver Lakes division in Miramar, Broward county, Florida; in Florida I lived a total of 18 years. Finally , moved to France in 2003 ,Versailles call me for its royalty, and working in Paris was great. It was time to seek frontiers again and moved to Brech near Auray, Morbihan in Brittany , and later move to not too far Pluvigner. Total so far in France has been 20 years, and counting. Moving average a home every 5.5 years hopefully this will be my last. Cheers All rights reserved. No part of this blog may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the written permission of the copyright holder, me. No part of this work may be modified, without the written permission of the holder, me.No part of this work may be exposed to public view in any form or by any means, without identifying the holder as the author, and with the before mentioned permission.

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