I have just been looking for wrecks in Google Earth along the west coast and found this pic



Some guy got too close to the sea north of Tantan and lost his 4x4 in the waves

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I started out on the Plage Blanche twice and turned back....intimidated by strong wind & high seas

"Do you feel lucky today - punk?"

In January/February this year, in the Budapest to Bamako Rally, one of the Norwegian contenders, riding a big ATV, got his ATV washed out to sea.

When riding on this beach, stay off the black stuff - it will get you stuck. Speak to the locals about the tide (don't rely on tide tables), and ride on the yellow sand, and it is a breeze

Here is a video of the beach - with me and my pals doing it on Classic Vespa scooters. It starts off with the best camel shot of all time: Day 11. Mauritania, down to the beach - YouTube

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Woow - doing it on vespas, cool!

I watched some of your youtube videos, did you have a support team with you or did you just tag along with the other 4x4's

Three riders on three scooters, completely unsupported. There was a camera crew that was supposed to follow us for a TV production for the Travel Channel, but they didn't like our pace, and wouldn't do the offroad bits we decided to go for - we lost them in Morocco and stumbled upon them a few more times on the tarmac bits - but we carried all our own stuff all the way... Half a scooter in spares, two ten liter jerry cans of fuel per scooter, lots and lots of impossible to get two stroke oil, half a field hospital, massive ammount of tools, two sets of wheels per scooter, camping equipment, and half a change of clothing and no usual "single personal luxury item"... Tools saw heavy usage from daily break downs, including three burned clutches and a shock absorber (luckily we were prepared for this). Traveling this fast, we needed to carry all the likely to go wrong bits of the scooter, which pretty much meant everything... meaning we were really heavy

Due to our choice of bikes, we had to start earlier than everyone else, and we allways finished much later - usually after dark. We lived mostly off of dry bread with apricot jam and water, this as we often had to leave before breakfast service or shops opened for business, and there would be no time to stop for any kind of service or cook ourselves, and we would often also arrive after places had stopped serving dinner or were cleaned out by our competitors. I think we had one lunch that was not bread, which we regretted as the delay it caused meant getting lost for hours in the sahara after dark. We even ate psyllum husks in massive ammounts to make sh1tting a quick job. We had to do a lot of camping, and saw few showers as our late arrivals usually ment no more hotel rooms.

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Sounds fantastic, my sort of adventure.

You should drive your scooters to Mongolia next, I drove there a few years ago with my girlfriend totally on our own with no convoy or support at all and its was the most amazing thing I have ever done

We are driving down to Mauritania in a few weeks in a little Citroen Saxo 1.1 which should prove to be fun, fun, fun!

I liked your youtube vids, especially the piste ones as we will be driving those as well

cheers

poor guy! Made me reconsider my planned beach driving out there!

Yes, a poor guy!

Mybe you should be careful, but i think it isnt that big risk..

Wheelie had told, how you should do it. ;-)

Surfy

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Where can I read how to do it, we fancy doin it in our Saxo

you are crazy

That video was brill, made my day.What beach was it?

Great video! I can't imagine how you burned out all those clutches.....

just had a quick looksie, you guys have clearly collectively lost the plot
good on ya