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Trail stats

Distance: 7.76 mi
Elevation gain: 512 ft
Technical difficulty: Easy
Elevation loss: 512 ft
Max elevation: 130 ft
TrailRank: 43
Min elevation: -16 ft
Trail type: Loop

Moving time: 2 hours 43 minutes
Time: 5 hours 58 minutes
Coordinates: 1962
Uploaded: November 12, 2020
Recorded: October 2020

2 Claps

near Macinaggio, Corse (France)

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Itinerary description

Easy family walk along coast past multiple lovely beaches. This is ideal family walk route as a full day allows time to swim off a few beaches. Those not interested in swimming much can do full route which takes 6.5hrs rtn or call for boat taxi back from end. Gets very windy.

Waypoints

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Start from parking at north end of town

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Trail has very clear marking

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Walk a ross first beach

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Follow track along headlands from North end beach

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Immeaditly trail forks. Turn right where signed santa maria 1hr 15,

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Pass the canon

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At top of headland below watchtower and radio mast is another junction. Turn right north continuing to a second bay

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Clear trail wends along a coast of sublime blues

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Meet dirt Rd and continue along it down to beach

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50m later veer off rd on track to right past a pocket rock cove out of wind and then onto main beach

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Pass summer only cafe at plage tamarone and along white sand beach (lots of piles up seaweed outside summer though)

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Through gate and follow signs to chapel

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Trail teeters along edge of headland

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From top of headland lovely views of islands with genoese tower

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Plage des iles

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Walk along beach

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Past chapel de santa maria (50m off trail) and carry on down to beach

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Semi restored genoese tower

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The real reward is 100m beyond where the first of two exquisite white sand beaches are to be found

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Second beach 109m further but more seaweed

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On the rtn instead of working away past headlands go straight on past chapel and follow trail directly south

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Trail goes through pretty mediterranean scrub and emerges by a wooden gate. Go through this and ascend in a couple min to beach

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Descending down from second beach (again cutting out headland you will pass two left turns right next to one and other. Ignore first which leads up hill to radio mast) and take second cutting through tunnel of woodland to finish on northern part of first beach

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Boat back from furthest beach

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Info on seagrass

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