Nice beach, next to the Promenade des Anglais, did not have quite the same face this week.
Since Wednesday, sand has replaced pebbles there, to the great surprise of residents and tourists.
“We were robbed of our pebbles.
Don't tell
to anyone because pebbles are our specialty.
If in Nice, there are no more pebbles, we are finished, ”laughed a Niçoise, interviewed by TF1.
No more pebbles in Nice, the gulls think they're in Cannes the fads 😅😂.
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— 🍓Barbara Delattre too pampered (@BarbaraDelattr2) January 18, 2023
In question: the weather of the last few days.
While at the beginning of the week, the department was placed on yellow waves-submersion vigilance, the coast was swept by a strong swell, carrying the pebbles from the beach of Nice.
"Seasons"
"It's true that when we have seas, we don't expect it, but the sea tends to naturally spit out the sand that is right here, and we end up with a half-sand beach , half pebbles”, indicates a beach attendant to TF1.
These pebbles should reappear naturally on the shoreline.
But nature is not solely responsible.
The metropolis also intervenes to transport pebbles to the beach of Nice, a manager of the "coastal studies and works" service told Le Parisien in March 2021. A measure taken to prevent the coast from receding.
