If you've ever been to the North or West coasts of France such as Normandy or the beaches around Brittany, you've probably noticed the huge difference between low and high tides. Le Mont-Saint-Michel is a particular example of this where one can't even see the water at low tide.

In Brittany (or Bretagne) where my wife is from, they have what is known there as the Grande Marée or Great Tide or Big Tide. During a full moon or new moon, these tides can be massive. My wife sent me the link below as they recently just experienced a very large one.

The news' report is all in French obviously, but the visuals are pretty cool.

https://www.facebook.com/BRETA...eos/960964674113450/

Beautiful is what I say. Ca va?

That‘s a really cool link. Reminds me of a picture that we used to have in the small bathroom in our old house:
It showed the lighthouse at the Chenal du Four in the Bretagne with a man standing in the southwestern doorway at the bottom of the lighthouse, right when a huge wave struck from behind and the water reached the top of the lighthouse.
For anyone interested, google „Phare du Four dans la “tempete“.
I am used to the high tides (and stormfloods in winter) along our North Sea coast, but the tides in France are even higher.

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Very cool, thanks. That lighthouse is iconic. And that poor guy with the blue building just got wrecked.

I just looked up "holy shit" in french and it's "sainte merde"!

The people seemed to be enjoying the phenomenon. Mildly disappointed that there weren't any surfers.