Tuesday, Bassin d'Arcachon

The bay around Arcachon has hundreds of miles of bike trails, many separated from the road like this one and a number through the vast forests that surround the towns just to the east of Bordeaux. Betsy's happy because she has found a waterproof handlebar bag to carry her camera when we bike.

We've stopped for a lunch of panini at a little shop just off the bike path.

Most of the towns we passed were middle class beach towns, but this small chateau sat down at the bottom of the bay next to a bird sanctuary. 

This is the bike map of the Bassin d'Arcachon showing the bike paths in red. We biked around the Bassin the first day and then biked south the second. The enormous sand dune is in the lower left.