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9th October 2015 Hiking - Walking: Pont de Duzen to Cuves du Duzon Wind Direction: Wind Stength: Surf / Sea State: Air Temperature: Sea Temperature: Weather: sunny and warm :) Max Speed: Distance Covered: 5 miles (Nautical Miles - unless stated otherwise) Friday 9th October – hike ***** - sunny and warm :) - Pont de Duzen to Cuves du Duzon – 5 miles, 3,5 hrs out. Lovely sunny day:) After breakfast we set off to walk to the ‘Cuves du Duzon’ which were about 2 ½ miles away from us. Half of the walk was up the lane we are parked in which is restricted to locals and turns out to be a dead end when it reaches a ramshackle farm. You have to pass through the farm to carry on the hike. We were met by two chubby goats and some chickens – luckily the barking dogs were in a shed/kennel! The path was then a typical French rocky scramble through beautiful chestnut forest with ferns and herbs growing between the rocks:) We couldn’t hear the ‘giant’s cauldron’ until we were right on it! The water from the whole river is forced between a metre wide crack through the rocks making it a chute into a basin at the bottom. The water swirls around like a whirlpool and when I threw a long stick in at the top it went round and round despite the force of water entering and leaving the pool. We never did see it leave! There was an old wall around this section of the river so at some point they had tried to make it safe but the wall of rock in front of the bowl had fallen away so they had stopped you going all the way round by putting a chain across. I hopped over that of course! Even Mag stepped over the chain and sat on the rocks with the best view of the rushing water. We spent a long time down there taking photos, eating our banana and choc bar and watching a wall of rock in the sun which was alive with small lizards and bugs. Walked back up, through the farm and back down the lane to the van. We were starving and ready for lunch after a challenging 5 mile hike and being away for 3 ½ hours! After lunch we relaxed and read our books in the sun. Around 5.30 we went for a walk down the ridiculously busy road leading to the bridge then turned back, down the local road which leads onto to the river bank. Crossed the old bridge, went under the new bridge and back up the other side to cross it again back to the van! Carbonara for tea and a game of phase 10 – 2 games all now :) Photo Gallery Here |
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