A busy sunny weekend in Omaha

During a very sunny weekend, thousands of vacationers enjoyed the beach of Omaha. The newspaper described more than four kilometers of sand and water at 20 or 21 °C, where bathers stayed until late in the evening. Despite a small northerly wind, the swimming flag was green.

On the sand, the children built castles, but also pyramids, sometimes accompanied by a sphinx. Older people preferred to stay dressed and meet to talk in the sun.

The wind favored the kite, practiced by young and old. A good dozen vacationers were paragliding: the cliff of Vierville served them as a meeting place and departure, under the admiring gaze of the walkers.

Other visitors sailed in dinghy or windsurfing, fishing, cycling or playing minigolf. The SNSM rescuers were watching over this high use of the coast.

Reconstructed or uncertain passages:
- The text uses both "paragliding" and "skydiving" to describe practitioners starting from the cliff; this terminological imprecision of the source is not used to affirm a second distinct activity.

Archive image: https://vierville.cordelle.eu/PhDoc10/1995Jui25-SNSM.jpg