Our tour took us from Nantes up to Mont Saint Michel, then to Saint-Guirec and Le Conquet before returning to Nantes with a night at Pornic. This stretch of coast is known as the Côte de Granit Rose (Pink Granite Coast) in the Côtes d'Armor department of northern Brittany and is known for its unique pink-toned granite rock formations. It is a rare geological formation, with similar red granite found in only two other places in the world: Corsica and China. We visited many lighthouses and seaside locations, the favourite which is the first included in these pics was the phare de Mean Ruz near Ploumanac’h. The skeleton pictured  off the beach is the Serpent d'Océan, a 130-meter-long aluminum sculpture of a sea serpent's skeleton located at Saint-Brevin-les-Pins. Created by artist Huang Yong Ping in 2012, it is designed to be submerged and revealed by the tides and is located just across the Loire estuary from Saint-Nazaire, with its shipyards in the background. Our final location was at the iconic fisherman huts on stilts in the water off the beach near Pornic, called carrelets in French. These huts, also often found along the Jade Coast (Côte de Jade) in Loire-Atlantique, are used for fishing with a large square net (also called a carrelet) lowered into the sea. We enjoyed lots of sea food and a good introduction to some proper good cider traditionally served in a bolée—a small, wide-mouthed ceramic or earthenware bowl. We also experienced the accompanying traditional salty buckwheat crêpes (galettes).