Mont St. Michel "Let build an abbey in the middle of the ocean!"

Mont St. Michel is a demi- island, meaning at high tide it's an island and at low tide it's part of the mainland. Well, now there is a causeway that connects it all the time but for a long time you had to time your trip just right or get stuck. So, it's very small, with one street and a lot of stairs and of course very touristy but that doesn't stop it from being breath-taking.

Look.

But it comes with perils. A tide you can't outrun, winds that will blow you over strong currents and of course the dreaded quicksand. So, maybe this picture is more of my shadow, but notice I'm almost up to my knees in quicksand and it only took 2 seconds to sink that far. But luckily that's as far as it goes otherwise we wouldn't have this picture.

And then the mud. These are not rocks they're mud pebbles. It thought they were cool. The mud here in the bay has this strange property of sticking to anything. I still have mud on my shoes even though I've washed them twice and worn them for two days now.
That's a buoy at low tide. I'm about mile out from the Mont.
Also, at low-tide people draw things in the sand. There was ever a marriage proposal.
Then there's high tide, that comes up an surrounds the Mont.
But from the causeway you can still get pretty pictures.
Other things to note. Lot's of seafood. mussels and clams are literally strewn about in the water. I even found a small crab in my bed at the hotel.