Wild camping persists on the beaches of Omaha

This cut describes the four kilometers of sand and the dunes of Vierville, Colleville and Saint-Laurent, together known since the war as Omaha Beach. Vierville is presented as particularly busy, thanks to the activities offered to young people: sailing, beach competition, physical education, sea trips and diving.

The report evokes more than two hundred and fifty offshore wrecks, remnants of the artificial port of 1944, around which fish and crustaceans were concentrated. It describes the fishing of soles, carrelets, cakes, étrilles and mussels, and reports an old authorization to lay a bottom line of fifty hooks. These uses and rules are those related at the time.

Wild camping, hitherto tolerated, had just been banned. An official land had opened, but its access to the beach required crossing private property and paying rights of way. After discussions, this difficulty had been resolved.

Some followers of freedom had nevertheless preferred to install tents and caravans in the dunes of Saint-Laurent, about ten meters from the sea, without particular equipment or comfort. Vierville had thus lost a few regulars, while retaining, according to the journalist, its tourist attraction.

A neighboring column, with no commune clearly identifiable in the fragment, announces the cleaning of the Aulne and streams from August 18 to September 3 and requests the intervention of local residents to facilitate the winter flow. It also indicates the prohibition of deliveries by trucks and vans from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in a blue zone. The only following title, Sens unique à Saint-Patrice, is cut.

Reconstructed or uncertain passages:
- The various neighboring opinions are not attached to Vierville: their municipality is not given in the image. The figures on wrecks and fishing regulations remain old press information, not current rules.

Archive image: https://vierville.cordelle.eu/Photos2008/1970-CampingAout70.jpg