Falaises de Jobourg

Todsy we went hiking in the Falaises de Joboug which is a protected natural site.

It's an amazing and windy coast with stunning rock formations. One is called "Le nez de Jobourg" (Jobourg Nose) and a rocky promontory of Icartian gneiss, located at the southern end of Cape La Hague. It is the oldest geological area of ​​the Cotentin, dating from the Precambrian (two billion years old).

The formerly called community of Jobourg (now La Hague) is surrounded by moorland and is not far away from the Phare de Goury (Goury Lighthouse), a lighthouse 100 metres away from the Goury beach. Jobourg has one nice beach on its commune, the Baie d'Écalgrain ("Écalgrain Beach"). The average temperature of the sea is 20 °C in summer. About 200 meters from the village is the CROSSMA, in charge of the busy traffic in the English Channel.

One typical fête in Jobourg is the Fête des Moutons, a sheep festival that take place the first weekend of August. The festival features contests in which border collies heard geese and sheep.Read more