Pointe du Grouin du Sud
Rocky headland of lichen-stained ancient rock overlooking tidal flats, seal sandbanks and a tidal bore.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Pointe du Grouin du Sud, a rocky headland in the Bay of Mont-Saint-Michel, follows an animal this coast once lost and the people who set out to count it. It reaches back to nineteenth-century hunters, a stranded newborn found near Tombelaine, and the aerial census flights that still cross the bay. Best heard at low tide, binoculars in hand, facing the sandbanks of the Sée estuary.
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