|
With the thunderstorm the east wind stopped and became a light southerly breeze. The rain kept pouring down all night. When I got up pre-dawn Tuesday morning the rain had become a light drizzle and the wind was mostly calm. If the forecast was correct it would stay like this, and a southerly swell should keep running for a couple of hours into the day. Theoretically this was the exact weather setup that should awake the many south-facing reefs and beaches in the area.
It was still dark when I drove onto the road leading east to Port Grimaud. The ditches besides the road were full of water from the torrential rain in the night and when I reached the roundabout in front of Port Cogolin it was still flooded, and the traffic lights had dropped out. I followed the coast road at the north side of the bay, which at the beginning lay calm in the first dim light of the overcast and grey morning. But at least it stayed dry.
The Saint Tropez peninsula was protecting large parts of the bay from the southerly swell, and I had to drive a while until I could spot the first small waves splashing onto the beaches beside the road. But all the usual suspect beaches I passed did not have any surf-able waves and I was getting nervous, knowing it wasn´t very far anymore until I would pass the Pointe des Issambres, where the coastline bends 90 degrees and faces east.
continue >>>
|
