Before you come
Any page that tells you where the waves are brings people to the coast. This one too. We want visitors who leave the beach and the village as they found them: park with care, don’t camp in the car park, look after dunes and water, and treat the people who live here well.
So here is what we ask.
Not etiquette. Concrete rules, because these problems have already happened on this coast, and the people who live here deal with the aftermath.
The car park is not your campsite
The beach car park is for going down to the beach. The people who live here also want to park and go for a swim: if you turn up in a van, do not take the best spot for the whole week. And if your plan is to block access to the beach, fill your tank at the public taps and wash your dishes at the village fountains, please stay somewhere else. The rubbish tax is paid here all year round, and it is not low.
Grey water goes to a proper disposal point
Emptying your tank into the ditch, the sand or the stream is not an option. Use a proper disposal point.
Not on the hill / not in the dunes
Trowel, bag, take it out with you. You know what we mean.
Your rubbish leaves with you
In August every bin is already overflowing. Leaving your bag beside a full one is the same as dropping it on the ground with an extra step.
Do not park on the dunes, or walk on them
That low scrubby plant that looks like nothing is what holds the beach in place. Where it gets driven over or trodden down, the sand goes, and the beach goes with it. It comes back in decades. This is not your front yard, it is a natural space.
Count the heads before you paddle out
If you arrive and there are a lot of heads in the water, go and find somewhere else. There is plenty of coast. And be honest about your level: getting into something beyond you is not only a risk to you, it creates chaos and leads to conflicts.
Say hello
It sounds trivial. It is not. The difference between an outsider and someone who came is usually saying good morning when you get to the car park, or enter the water.
Because the coast is finite, and because bringing people here means saying on what terms.
If something here is excess, missing, or not being kept, tell us.