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In Étretat, head fishing

2021-08-22T14:49:22.783Z


REPORT - Blind, Christophe Leboucher is the last to practice this technique in the seaside resort of Seine-Maritime. Groping encounter with nature and beauty in the company of this sea worker.


You have to venture beyond the arch of Etretat to leave the world behind.

We have an appointment with the adventure at 4:04 p.m., before the crustacean train passes.

Under the colossus of stones, when the tide is threatening, the wind stops for a moment.

"You hear?

Everything breaks out and suddenly calms down.

You could hear a monster growl behind the point. ”

Christophe Leboucher climbs over the rocks, the spray and passes to the other side.

Where there is no dike, no walkers, no handicap.

Because the man is blind, and he is the last fisherman to the head of Étretat.

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“Welcome to my apartments,”

smiles Christophe Leboucher.

Here he slips nimbly between the algae and the villainous waves: his visually impaired cane is now only used for presentations.

On the right, the round rock, called rock 80, indicates the tidal coefficient.

Next come the swimming pools - large and small -, then this puddle "from the corner of Raymond".

As for this large pile of stones

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Source: lefigaro

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