At the beginning of this year, the inhabitants of Etretat, a famous little town in the north west part of France, Normandy, have had the surprise to see that most of the pebbles on their beach had disapeared.
So where did they go ? They say that pebbles remain into the water not far from the beach and were dragged by strong tides.
It seems that this phenomena has already happened, especially in 1930 and 1950 but normally these rocks should have came back for now. People overthere start to be afraid because pebbles are usefull against the flood coming from the sea. Of course, from a tourism point of view, Etretat is no more the same town without its little rocks.
I let you watch the following video from TV news :
So where did they go ? They say that pebbles remain into the water not far from the beach and were dragged by strong tides.
It seems that this phenomena has already happened, especially in 1930 and 1950 but normally these rocks should have came back for now. People overthere start to be afraid because pebbles are usefull against the flood coming from the sea. Of course, from a tourism point of view, Etretat is no more the same town without its little rocks.
I let you watch the following video from TV news :