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bordermarkers of the Pyrenees : all my trips
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wednesday 31 august
2022 -
Redoing bm602 by swimming - failed trial
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Summary:
part of a series of 9 daytrips in august & september 2022 across
the Pyrenees. The main goal was to finish my plan to have visited all
bordermarkers at least twice. It was also a kind of sentimental farewell journey, visiting old friends and cherished places.
This is daytrip 6.
Today: I try to swim to bm602
but I left too far away from the cave. Also the sea was rougher than
expected. So I abort my swim and return.
Weather: overcast
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According to Garmin
Basecamp (uncorrected track with elevation added by Gpsvisualizer.com):
Distance: 6,0 km
Max-height: 57m
Min-height: 0m
Elevation: +558m -558m
Total elevation: 1116m
Start 12:18 Finish 15:48
Total time: 3:30
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 | Coming from the Cerdagne, I drive straight to Port Bou because of the favourable weather forecasts.
Parking at the large P near the harbor and walking along the coast
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 | and beach
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 | and picking up a trail at the other side of the bay.
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 | That trail - winding and going up and down - brings me
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 | to this point of departure.
This is where Corinne Gourgeonnet and her son Arthur left twice for their swimming to bm602.
But I find the sea at this point too rough and the coast too rocky and slippery.
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 | I have passed a beach earlier and that could be a better place to start, I thought.
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 | This is that beach.
I put on my wetsuit, fill my swimming buoy and leave my clothes in a backpack behind.
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And I start swimming around 14:00
But the sea sways more than I expected and when I note that I approach
my original point of departure, I see on my sports watch that I already
swum ± 500m.
The cave with bm602 is still 750m further and that will be too much. So
I stop and return to the beach in an even more swaying sea.
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 | Returning to Port Bou
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 | and driving to camping Verte Rive in St-Laurent-de-Cerdans, my basecamp for the next days.
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