The Pink Granite Coast of Brittany, along Ploumanac’h is an enchanting, strange landscape. My then two year old leapt to his heart content up and down boulders, perhaps to a degree more frightening than I care to admit. Having said that, there was something thrilling about his bouldering, an unselfconscious pleasure in the act of leaping and conquering.
The above video attempts to capture a mid summer sunset on the boulders.
The Wikipedia article at time of writing states:
This type of pink rock can only be found in two other places in the world, Corsica and China.[citation needed]
Citation needed indeed! For the colour of the boulders, if not perhaps their sheer plenitude, was familiar to me (from 00:11 in the below video):
And indeed here too there are memories of my own childhood, clambering up and down rocks, adventuring in a universe of stone.
Séamus Sweeney 