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I make a little break in my gallery about my recent trip to Northern Ireland because I wanted to show you a not well known site about 40 kilometers north of Nantes. We are in Abbaretz on the site of an old tin mine that used to be exploited 6 years long from 1952 to 1957. The excavation has been transformed to a lake which hosts a leisure centre. The banks of sand extracted from the mine created a lunar landscape dominated by a slag heap 70 meters height. You also could imagine a vulcano erupted a few decades ago and destroyed all the countryside around ! Today nature is back, some little trees and bushes grow on the white sand areas. But in some places the landscape is so desolated you could think an eruption just occurred ! You can go top of the slah heap (120 meters height) from which you have an incredible view on the countryside around. It is said you even can see the "Tour de Bretagne" of Nantes (the only skyscraper of Nantes) when the weather is clear ! You can then walk around the slag heap and discover this incredible scenery.

I made a lot of pictures there, I will show you others if you are kind lol On this one, you can see the slag heap and the little canyons the rain water digged in the white sand. The photo was taken on the early evening. I underexposed 1/3. The title is a wink to "Explorers on the moon", one of the adventures of Tintin ;)