Two years ago when the Rochefort Transporter had its anniversary they used one of my photos of the Tees Transporter in their exhibition. I wondered if t was still on display, anyway, on our visit today we would find out.
We arrived at the Transporter to find it closed, I was surprised at this as it was supposed to be running. We discovered that a cable or cable anchor had given way and so the bridge was closed for maintenance. I had written to the people who had run the exhibition at the bridge, to say we would be visiting but had heard nothing back, so was a tad upset to find it closed. Anyway we took lots of photos (maybe some could be used by the Tees Transporter for their centenary in 2011) and went for a looks at some old photos in the bridge café. Here the man running the cafe shouted at me for entering the cafe with dirty shoes, the day just got better and better.
From the bridge we headed for the coast at Port des Barques and went for a walk along the shore line. There was a causeway to an Island (IleMadame) and we had wondered if we could walk or drive over but the tide came in at a very fast pace, we would never have made it. The weather was back to being hot again today, so we had a nice sun tanning wander, there seemed to be a lot of storm damage long the coast from the winter storms. Here many of the fishing contraptions seem to have been smashed to pieces, there are a lot old and abandoned about France but these look to have been damaged recently. We didn't have any drinks with us and it was very hot, so we headed back to the car, we were also getting hungry by then.
We had passed a few small shops and cafes just before we parked so we drove back there to maybe get something to eat and drink but unfortunately it was at that time of day when you can not get anything in France, they had all just closed. On the way back to Rochefort we stopped off at the opposite side of the Transporter and found the small museum where my photo was but again, unfortunately it was not open. The sign on the door said it should be open but it wasn't (on our return home there was an email from the Transporter people, sent this day to say that the Transporter was not operating but that arrangements had been made to open the museum for our visit.) I did get a photo of my photo through the window.
Back at the campsite we did very little for the rest of the day but take advantage of the sun. Dot and I did pop into reception to ask about tolls to Bordeaux and decided we would just do it to get to the next site faster.
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