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Corsica, 20th of August. Bodri beach, L'ile Rouse 

We started today with the intention to go to the beach of Saint Fleurent and discovered that all boat taxis were very busy. You cannot book for the same day a taxi boat or even an ATV to reach Salecchia or Lotu beaches. 
 
I made reservations for 21st of August (next day) to be taxied to the Salecchia beach in a 2pm to 7pm slot. Then I decided to go to another beach, on l'ile Rouse - Bodri beach. The drive was less than an hour along the west coast of Corsica with beautiful images along the way. 

Bodri beach, although public, has two different access points, one is from a private camping site, the other is 200 meters down the road, barely marked at the street level. You descend on a gravel road to get to the beach. There is a paying parking lot which becomes public after 5 pm. 

The beach is 20-30 meters wide, with a few trees making shade for the unprepared visitors (not having umbrellas or beach tents). 

Emma loved the water and stayed mostly at the edge of it, sometimes building sand castles. 

Around 7pm I drove back. The route was very scenic and at some point shot a few villages hanged on the slopes of a mountain - white buildings surrounded by vegetation. 

I hesitated to stop on the way back when I saw a view of the mountains in different shades of grey because the roads in Corsica are not wide enough to have this sudden urge without creating a bottleneck in traffic. I have another post about driving in Corsica versus anywhere in Europe.
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