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Surf Spot Characteristics |
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Surf Quality |
| | wave quality | Sloppy |
| | experience | beginners wave |
| | surf frequency | sometimes break |
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Wave |
| type | beach-break |
| | direction | right and left |
| | bottom | sandy |
| | power | - fun
- powerless
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| | normal length | short (<50m) |
| | good day | short (<50m) |
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Tide, Swell and Wind |
| | swell direction | - North
- NorthWest
- NorthEast
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| | wind direction | - South
- SouthEast
- East
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| | swell size | starts working at 1.5m-2m /5ft-6ft and holds up to 2.5m+ / 8ft+ |
| | tide position | all tides |
| | tide movement | rising and falling tides |
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Author: Yannick Yellow Board
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Sangatte Access |
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From the main city around, Calais, follow road D940 toward Boulogne. Sangatte is the second small city you get through after leaving Calais (10 kilometers).
Once there, just stop and walk past the sand dunes. |
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distance | in the city |
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walk | instant access (<5 mn) |
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easy to find? | easy to find |
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public access? | public access |
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special access | Don't know |
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More Details on Surfing |
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week crowd |
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dangers | - rips / undertow
- pollution
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Additional Surfing Infos |
| | No real surf here... just wait for a big gale and come to surf for the fun of it !
NORTH SWELL is needed, with no wind if possible.
The flat beach makes this spot very less good than Cap Blanc Nez, 4 kilometers away Southward.
Indeed, you can do it here !
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Atmosphere |
Sangatte city is very famous in France and Great Britain for two reasons : it is 8 kilometers from the EuroTunnel station (the entry/exit of the cross Channel tunnel) and... it has a wharehouse managed by the french Red Cross. Nearly 1000 refugees live here all year round and walk each evening toward the EuroTunnel to try to get into the trains and find asylum in Great Britain.
When you drive through Sangatte you see'em walking around or making phone calls to Irak, Iran, Pakistan, Kurdistan or wherever they come from. EuroTunnel is asking french government to close it but hell : where would they go ??? |
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General |
As i said, just for the fun of it... if you get there you'd rather push a little further toward the Cap Blanc Nez beach.
SECURITY ADVISORY : due to those refugees, wild camping or in-the-car-sleeping is not recomended around Sangatte. Leaving stuff unattended is not, either (cameras, clothes, food, etc.). |
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comment by Yannick Yellow Board, 2003-02-06 03:03:32