The other side · Verified: 30 July 2026
At the far eastern end of the park the white limestone stops and the rock turns ochre. The Mugel and Figuerolles are the only calanques you can reach on a 90-cent city bus, the paddling here is the least regulated in the park — and above them runs a clifftop road with four separate ways of being closed. Here is the whole eastern sector, from the French sources the English guides don't read.
Everything west of Cassis is white Urgonian limestone. At La Ciotat the geology changes mid-park: the massif des Trois Secs, the bec de l'Aigle ("Eagle's Beak") and the two calanques beneath them are cut into poudingue — puddingstone, a conglomerate of rounded pebbles eroded off the Alps and the Pyrenees, carried here by a river that no longer exists and cemented by sand, clay and calcite. It weathers ochre-red, and into the honeycombed hollows called taffoni. Photograph the same turquoise water against this rock and it reads warmer and greener than at En-Vau. Climbers cross France for it: 100% conglomerate sport climbing barely exists anywhere else in the country.
Shadeless hikes or a boat you can't get off. One calanque needs a free permit; kayak rental for the En-Vau/Port-Pin sector is restricted to three approved operators, and seasonal landing bans apply at Port-Pin and En-Vau from 1 May to 30 September.
Both coves are under 30 minutes on foot from the town centre on the park's own figures — or a €0.90 bus. No quota, no ticket. And this is the least-regulated paddling base in the park: the three-operator rule is En-Vau/Port-Pin-specific, and the Mugel, Petit Mugel and Figuerolles appear on none of the park's landing-exception lists — free kayak and SUP landing all season.
The honest trade-off: ease has a price, and the park says so in its own words — it calls Figuerolles "surfréquentée" and describes the Mugel coves as suffering "typically urban" over-visitation, policed by a reinforced eco-ranger presence aimed at cigarettes, speakers and litter rather than numbers. Both are small pebble coves that fill by mid-morning in July and August. Arrive at 08:00 when the Parc du Mugel gate opens, or come in the shoulder months, and you get the ochre rock nearly to yourself.
One closure note before anything else: from 1 June to 30 September these coves live under the same nightly fire map as the rest of the park. The La Ciotat coves sit at the eastern end of the Cap Canaille chain — the massif boundary isn't published precisely, so check both "Cap Canaille" and "Calanques" on the prefecture map the evening before, and treat a red day as closing the whole site. The full mechanics are in the closures guide.
The Grand Mugel is the most family-friendly true calanque in the park, full stop: beach at the car park, gentle entry, a restaurant on the pebbles, a free garden with play areas above, four disabled bays, the bus at the door. Almost every other calanque is none of those things — compare the En-Vau approach. Figuerolles' 87 steps rule out wheels of any kind.
The Mugel reserve is the best easy snorkel in the park, and Figuerolles is a genuine dive site — the tombant drops past 20 m, and diving is explicitly excepted from the reserve rules. Discover-scuba runs from age 8 at La Ciotat centres. Start with the snorkelling guide or browse snorkel trips.
The least-regulated, most rewarding paddling base in the park: free landing at both coves all season, a marked paddle-sports channel on the municipal balisage plan, and the park's own suggested routes along the bec de l'Aigle cliffs or around the Île Verte. Rules and rental logic in the kayak guide.
Two small single-pitch sectors on pure conglomerate at Figuerolles (5a–6a), serious multi-pitch on the Soubeyranes above (6a upward, sectors like the Grand Draioun, bolted only since 2003), and the Trou du Diable for deep-water soloists. Check the park's live closure calendar first — nesting arrêtés bite here — and see guided options for via corda days.
The calanque du Mugel splits into the Grand Mugel — the bigger cove, coloured pebbles, a gentle shelving entry that is the friendliest in the whole park for small children and weak swimmers, a restaurant at the back and the Île Verte filling the view — and the Petit Mugel, a smaller, quieter cove reached over the rocks. The bus terminus and the car park are 200 m from the gate; there is zero ascent and the beach edge is pushchair-passable. Four disabled parking bays are marked, and this is one of very few park sites realistically reachable with limited mobility.
Behind the beach rises the Parc du Mugel: a free, 12-hectare municipal botanical garden ("jardin remarquable", city-owned since 1952), whose mistral-sheltered microclimate grows bamboo, cactus and bird-of-paradise. Its paths climb to a belvédère at 82 m and a second viewpoint over the cliff-locked anse du Sec — the park flags that one as unsuitable for anyone with vertigo. The signed loop, "Le grand tour du Mugel", is graded FACILE: 2.4 km, 1 hour, +140 m, past a working 19th-century rainwater impluvium to the bec de l'Aigle viewpoint. Gate hours are their own closure layer: 08:00–20:00 from 1 April to 30 September, 09:00–18:00 in winter — the 08:00 opening is the single best crowd-avoidance fact about this site. There are play areas and a marked picnic area; dogs are allowed leashed on the paths but banned from the beach. Figuerolles beach is explicitly unsupervised; whether the Mugel has seasonal lifeguarding is signposted on site but we could not confirm it against a municipal source — assume you swim at your own risk.
Inter-prefectural arrêté no. 83/2025 (April 2025, inaugurated 24 June 2025) created a protected Posidonia seagrass zone covering the anse du Mugel and the anse du Sec — 0.112 km². Inside it, all anchoring and all recreational fishing and collecting are banned, permanently, regardless of fire colour. You may swim, snorkel, paddle and land; you may not drop a hook or take anything. Only a narrow strip stays open to the local professional prud'homie; dive clubs and the municipality's underwater-vision boat hold named exceptions. A visitor spearfishing or anchoring here in 2026 is breaking a rule that didn't exist in 2024 and that most guidebooks haven't caught up with. It began as a proposal by La Ciotat schoolchildren through the Aires Marines Éducatives programme — the park calls it a first in France.
The reserve is why the Mugel is the best easy snorkelling in the park: clear, protected water over seagrass and shallow rock, with fish life measurably better than an unprotected cove and expected to keep improving. Two organised ways in: Atelier Bleu (CPIE Côte Provençale, the park's designated marine-interpretation operator here) runs a guided snorkel trail with a state-qualified dive eco-guide, weekday mornings in July and August — 2 h 30, €30 adult / €27 child 6–15, equipment provided, €10 deposit at booking, adapted sessions for participants with disabilities using a support raft. It cancels outright on red fire days, with notice only around 18:00 the evening before. Separately, the town's free "réserve marine des enfants" sessions (from age 8) are prioritised for La Ciotat residents with proof of address — don't plan a holiday around them. Be careful with wording you'll see elsewhere: the park's two genuinely free, self-guided buoyed snorkel trails are at Plage des Catalans (Marseille) and Saint-Estève (Frioul); whether a permanent self-guided route now exists in the Mugel reserve is claimed by aggregators but not confirmed on any official page.
Both beaches are coarse pebble — not sand, anywhere. Water shoes are the one item that transforms this site. No bins (carry everything out), no confirmed drinking-water point: bring 1.5–2 L per person per half day.
Figuerolles — Provençal for "fig orchard" — is the photogenic one: a narrow pocket of pebbles at the foot of an amphitheatre of eroded conglomerate, the rocher du Capucin (read by some as a dog's head, the "Tête de Chien") overhead and the îlot du Lion offshore. This is the cove the painters worked, and the park itself describes the sea-facing side of the point as a completely different, almost gothic landscape from what you see on land. The water shelves off quickly — "une belle profondeur" — and the tombant de Figuerolles drops past 20 m not far offshore, with faults and overhangs sheltering octopus, spiny lobster and urchins. It suits confident swimmers, snorkellers and divers; it does not suit paddling toddlers. It faces due south, so it takes southerly swell head-on — in S/SW weather go to the mistral-sheltered Mugel instead.
Access is a single staircase of 87 steps from the Parking de Figuerolles — the hotel above calls them "87 marches glissantes", slippery steps, and means it. You physically pass through the terrace of the Chez Tania hotel-restaurant on the way down; that's not a shortcut, it's the route. The stairs are the only way in and out: no pushchairs, no wheelchairs, real supervision with small children, grippy shoes rather than flip-flops. Chez Tania has run since 1956, when its Russian founding family declared the calanque too strange to belong to France and proclaimed the "Independent Republic of Figuerolles", complete with a notional one-hour time difference — you can still, in principle, settle a bill in figs at a reckoned €6 per kilo. A small association-run buvette also operates by the beach. The beach itself is unsupervised, non-smoking, and dog-free.
East of Figuerolles, at 43.164723, 5.597808, is a historic deep-water-soloing venue: roughly 10 m of overhanging conglomerate above deep water. Getting there is a committing 20-minute traverse from the beach with 5b climbing moves above the sea and a final swim under a cable — or a paddle in by kayak. There is no legal framework for deep-water soloing, no guided operator, no bolts and no rescue cover; a calm sea is non-negotiable because falling in is the only escape, and nesting arrêtés can close the ground above. Competent climbing partners, a dry bag and honest self-assessment — or enjoy it from the water. (Roped climbers get a legal alternative: two small single-pitch sectors at Figuerolles itself, 5a–6a on pure conglomerate — operators ask groups to keep numbers down because the sectors are tiny.)
The two coves are 800 m apart along Avenue des Calanques, so doing both in one outing is trivial — and the third option is to see them from the water. The Vieux-Port boat circuits are commentary-only (no landing exists anywhere in the park), so if you want to be in the water off this coast rather than looking at it, the snorkelling boats are the product that actually delivers:
The sea off Figuerolles is usually at its flattest before the afternoon breeze builds — and the south-facing cliffs light up as the sun comes round. The La Ciotat morning boat tour with snorkelling (★4.9, 73 reviews) is the pick for snorkellers who care about visibility. Pairs cleanly with an afternoon in the Mugel reserve.
Coming off a morning train, or giving the beach the cooler early hours? The afternoon calanques boat tour with swimming (★4.7, 101 reviews) runs the same coast later in the day — and dodges the 11:00–17:00 window when the pebbles are at their fullest. Both boats swim in open water: no vessel may land at the coves, on any day. More context in the boat guide.
The most useful planning fact about this site is almost never stated: the Mugel and Figuerolles respond to opposite winds. The Mugel faces roughly east-northeast into the bay and sits in the lee of the bec de l'Aigle and the Trois Secs — a hard mistral (NW) is largely blocked, and the cove often stays flat calm while the rest of the coast is white-capped. That shelter is literally why the botanical garden's tropical plants survive. What hurts the Mugel is easterly and south-easterly weather blowing straight into the bay. Figuerolles is the mirror image: exposed "plein sud", it takes S/SW swell head-on — the park describes the sea-facing point beyond it as ground where the sea breaks front-on. So the read is simple:
Sheltered, swimmable, often glassy — and quiet, because the forecast scared everyone off. Expect the 82 m belvédère to be cold and gusty, boat departures to be trimmed or cancelled, and remember a violent mistral can shut the bec de l'Aigle access and the Route des Crêtes without notice.
The Mugel gets choppy and Figuerolles is worse — and the Trou du Diable traverse becomes genuinely dangerous. Do the botanical garden, the town and the Cosquer cave in Marseille instead, or check whether the boats are even sailing in the boat guide.
Best overall: mid-September to mid-October, or May to early June — the sea still swimmable, the fire-closure regime at its edges, low light making the ochre glow, crowds gone. Best hour in any season: the first two hours after the Parc du Mugel gate opens (08:00 in summer, 09:00 in winter); second best, the last two before it closes — but check the last 355 back, and remember there's no 355 at all on Sundays. Winter is underrated here in a way it isn't elsewhere in the park: these coves are a bus ride, not a hike, so a clear February morning at the Petit Mugel costs a bus fare and is close to solitary, with the garden open all winter 09:00–18:00.
Avoid: 11:00–17:00 in July and August, when the parking fails before the beach does and there is no real shade on the Figuerolles pebbles; any summer Sunday you were relying on the bus to the Mugel; and any red fire day, which closes the whole site. One perverse pattern worth knowing: because the massif closes on the hottest, windiest days, the crowd compresses into the remaining open days — the "nice" day straight after a red day is the worst possible arrival time, at the coves and on the Route des Crêtes alike. How red days are decided, and when the map publishes, is in the closures guide.
How long to give it: the Mugel alone is a 2–4 hour outing from La Ciotat; Mugel + garden loop + Petit Mugel, 4–5 hours; both coves (800 m apart), a comfortable 6–7 hour day; add 3–4 hours for the Île Verte. From Marseille, 7–9 hours door to door — a full day, but one with no hiking in it. A kayak day along the bec de l'Aigle cliffs, or out to the Île Verte and around it, is the park's own suggested route pair for this sector.
First, reach La Ciotat. The train is the best option: Gare La Ciotat–Ceyreste is on the Marseille–Toulon TER line, about 30 minutes direct from Marseille Saint-Charles (this is the station where the Lumière brothers shot the arriving train in 1895). The station sits well outside the centre — connect on urban bus 351 or 352 (€0.90), or walk the Voie Douce greenway on the old railbed, about an hour. Regional coaches also work: leCar line 69 from Marseille's Place Castellane, line M05 from Cassis, and line 78 (Cassis–Marseille via the Gineste) April to October only — leCar singles are €3.50 all zones. Driving in on a summer afternoon is the plan that fails: the park explicitly warns the cove car parks saturate, and parking is chargeable 1 May–30 September (the Tourist Office's own French and English pages disagree on whether the free grace period is one hour or two — budget roughly €3.80/hour after it, or better, skip the car). Full regional logistics in the transport guide.
Then, the coves. The whole La Ciotat/Ceyreste bus network was renumbered on 7 July 2025 (with further changes in February 2026), and most of the internet hasn't noticed:
| Line | Serves | Sundays? | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 355 (Le Mugel – Athelia 1) | Terminates at the Mugel | No | Every 22–30 min weekdays in term time; replaced old line 52 |
| 353 (La Garde – Fardeloup École) | Stop "Figuerolles", then 200 m on foot along Avenue de Figuerolles | Yes | Every 25 min weekdays; 25–45 min Saturdays and holidays |
| 351 / 352 | SNCF station ↔ town centre | — | The connection from the train |
| 30, 32, 52 | Retired numbers. Still cited by guidebooks — and by the park's own "coming from La Ciotat" page, which also still routes visitors via Cassis SNCF station. La Ciotat has its own station; ignore both errors. | ||
Fares: €0.90 a trip, paid to the driver in cash or by card; €6.40 for a 10-trip carnet from the gare routière. The trap to plan around: no 355 on Sundays means no bus to the Mugel on a summer Sunday — and the Tourist Office's own advice is that there's no direct line from their office to the Mugel anyway: just walk it, about 20 minutes (Figuerolles about 25). From Marseille centre, budget 1 h 15–1 h 45 door-to-beach, and 7–9 hours for a proper day — a full day out, but unlike Sormiou or En-Vau, one with no hiking in it.
Above the coves, the falaises Soubeyranes run 14–15 km from Cassis to La Ciotat with a road along the top — the D141, the Route des Crêtes, built in the 1960s. First, the number, honestly: 394 m makes this the highest sea cliff in metropolitan France — more than four times Étretat — and among the highest in Europe, ranked fourth by the French sources that attempt a ranking. It is not "the highest cliff in Europe", whatever the excursion listings say. Even the local numbers disagree: the highest summit, the Grande Tête, is given as 394 m by the Conservatoire du littoral and 399 m by the La Ciotat Tourist Office's own trail sheet, and the biggest sheer drop straight to the sea on the marked path is about 370 m. Every headline view is a roadside pull-in — the Grand Belvédère above Cassis with its orientation tables, the Tête de Chien for late-afternoon light, the Sémaphore (1791, still an active military signal station) at the La Ciotat end. Drive it Cassis→La Ciotat for the progressive reveal; La Ciotat→Cassis late in the day, when the low sun lands on the ochre face.
| Layer | When | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| 1 · Sunday pedestrianisation | Every Sunday, all year, 00:00–24:00 | No cars or motorbikes; walkers, cyclists and e-scooters only. Began as a 21-Sunday trial in 2024, now year-round — the park's own news page still shows only the 2024 window and is stale; the tourist offices are current. |
| 2 · Fire map | 1 Jun–30 Sep, decided nightly | Check the massif named "Cap Canaille" — not "Calanques" — on the prefecture map site by 18:00 the evening before. Red closes the road automatically and bans all land access to the massif; €135 fine, full red-day rules here. |
| 3 · Wind barriers | Any day, any season, no notice | Strong wind — in practice the mistral, which accelerates over the crest — drops physical DFCI barriers at both ends of the D141. If it happens while you're inside, you are locked in with your car: call the Municipal Police, Cassis 04 42 01 17 17 or La Ciotat 04 42 08 65 38. |
| 4 · Nesting arrêtés | Per the park's live calendar | The Sainte-Frétouse sector is closed 1 Oct 2025–15 Jul 2026 (corniche des Grands-ducs; eastern Traversée des Immortelles to 30 Jun) for eagle-owls and peregrines — not Bonelli's eagle, a common error. These suspend all summit activities above the cliffs, hiking and trail running included, not just climbing — and since a 2024 reform they're multi-season orders that rangers can lift early, so check the live calendar, not last year's dates. |
Debunk: the "closes 17 November for winter" claim. A widely indexed sentence saying the Route des Crêtes shuts at 16:00 on 17 November for the winter season belongs to a different road with the same name — the Route des Crêtes of the Vosges (RD 431), which really does close every winter. No Cassis, La Ciotat, departmental or park source documents any winter closure here, and the all-year Sunday rule presupposes the road is open in January. What winter actually brings is more mistral days — closure layer 3.
Up top there are no facilities at all: no water, no toilets, no café, no fuel, no bins, no shade and no shelter across the whole ridge — carry 1–2 L per person (the Cassis Tourist Office's own minimum), a windproof layer, and stay back from the lip: the park warns explicitly that unpredictable gusts here cause falls, and the edge is friable and frequently unfenced. If you want more than the pull-ins, three signed circuits leave the road, all allowing leashed dogs: Falaises Soubeyranes (FACILE, 2 h, 2.6 km, +150 m — past a buoy marking a 13 km submarine canyon that drops below 1,900 m, to the 370 m overhang; do this one), Sémaphore > Cap Canaille (MOYEN, 3 h, 7.6 km, +576 m) and Boucle 394 (DIFFICILE, 4 h, 9 km, +460 m) — more context in the hiking guide.
No scheduled bus has ever run along the road. Car-free access is realistic only on Sundays via the Cassis-side shuttle: free Gorguettes park-and-ride, then €0.80 to the Pas de la Colle at the foot of the climb, every Sunday 26 April–27 September 2026. Read the timetable carefully — departures 09:00–13:30, then a four-hour gap: returns run 12:15, 13:15, 14:15, then nothing until 17:15. Take the 13:30 up and you cannot ride down before 17:15. (And avoid Sunday 25 October outright: the Marseille–Cassis race closes the Gorguettes 07:30–14:00 and cancels the shuttles.) On the La Ciotat side, bus 356 to "La Bucelle" reaches the road's foot — the park's Cap Canaille page still lists lines 30, 31 and 10, all retired. E-bikes hire at the foot of the Cassis climb for the 8%-average, 5 km ascent. For everyone else — no car, no Sunday, no legs for an 8% climb — the honest answer is a day-trip coach: the Aix-en-Provence half-day Cassis tour with a Cap Canaille stop (★4.8, 124 reviews, GetYourGuide-certified) buys you the Route des Crêtes viewpoint without the hairpins, the wind-barrier gamble or the Sunday ban — the value is the transport and the certainty, not the guiding. Just don't book any drive-up product for a Sunday.
One last pairing worth the extra hour: see the wall from below. The La Ciotat Vieux-Port circuits run west directly beneath the Soubeyranes on their way to En-Vau and Sormiou (from €18, minimum 15 passengers to sail) — 394 m only means something once you've looked up at it from sea level. The 1982 fire that razed the whole massif from Cassis to the Mugel started with a barbecue on the beach below; the terraced pines you drive through were planted afterwards, which is why the no-smoking, no-fire rule here is not an abstraction.
Commercial passenger landing is banned everywhere in the park — except the Île Verte, the small green island facing the Mugel, which has an authorised landing stage. The shuttle (Navette Aquilade I, from 12 Quai Général de Gaulle on the Vieux-Port) crosses in 15 minutes: €14 return adult, €9 child under 10 — the operator's own 2026 prices; sites still quoting €13/€8 are stale. April–June and September: departures at 10:00, 11:00, 12:00, 14:00, 15:00, 16:00, 17:00 (extra 13:00 and 18:00 some weekends). July–August: hourly 09:00–18:00. October on request. No reservations — you buy on the boat, and it takes cash, bank cheque or paper ANCV only, no cards (there are ATMs nearby). The first sailing of the day needs a minimum of 4 passengers, and the boatmen cancel without notice in bad weather.
On the island: an easy waymarked loop of about an hour, an orientation table at the Fort Saint-Pierre (about 50 m up), a restaurant near the quay, a swim, and the definitive view back at the bec de l'Aigle. Pair it with a Mugel morning and you have the best full day on this side of the park — 3–4 hours for the island leg. Bring the cash before you reach the quay.
This is the cheapest serious calanque day in the park — entry to the coves, the beaches and the botanical garden is free, forever. What you might actually pay:
| Item | Price | Catch |
|---|---|---|
| Urban bus (355 / 353 / 351 / 352) | €0.90 a trip · €6.40 × 10 | Pay the driver, cash or card; carnet from the gare routière |
| Île Verte shuttle, return | €14 adult · €9 under-10 | No cards. Cash, cheque or paper ANCV, on the boat |
| Vieux-Port boat circuits (Les Amis des Calanques) | €18 – €34 | €18 Figuerolles · €27 En-Vau · €31 Morgiou · €34 Sormiou; under-4 free, under-12 −€6; needs 15 passengers minimum to sail — shoulder-season sailings can simply not run. Commentary-only: no landing, ever |
| Atelier Bleu guided snorkel, Mugel reserve | €30 adult · €27 child 6–15 | Weekday mornings Jul–Aug, 2 h 30, €10 deposit; cancels on red days with ~18:00 evening-before notice |
| Cove parking, 1 May–30 Sep | ~€3.80/h after a free period | The Tourist Office's French and English pages disagree on the grace period (one hour vs two); free 1 Oct–30 Apr; saturates anyway — take the bus |
| Regional coach (leCar) | €3.50 single all zones | €2.50 excluding zone 1; 10-trip €28 |
Pack list, short version: water shoes (both beaches are coarse pebble — the single most useful item here), 1.5–2 L of water per person per half day (no confirmed drinking-water point at either cove), grippy shoes for the 87 steps, a mask and snorkel for the reserve, a rubbish bag (no bins — the park's carry-out rule is absolute), and cash for the Île Verte boat and the parking meters. Leave at home: the drone (banned park-wide), the barbecue, the speaker, and — for the beaches — the dog. More gear logic in the swimming guide.
No. Both coves and the botanical garden are free, with no reservation, quota or QR code. The park's booking system covers only Sugiton and Pierres Tombées, roughly 30 km away on the Marseille side. The only thing that can stop you is a red fire-risk day — see the closures guide.
Line 355 terminates at the Mugel (not on Sundays); line 353 stops at "Figuerolles", 200 m from the steps, and does run Sundays. €0.90 to the driver, cash or card. Ignore lines 30, 32 or 52 — retired in the July 2025 renumbering, though the park's own page still lists them. More in the transport guide.
It's not limestone — it's poudingue, a conglomerate of rounded pebbles cemented by sand, clay and calcite, weathering ochre-red into honeycombed taffoni. That's why the bec de l'Aigle looks nothing like En-Vau, and why climbers travel for it: 100% conglomerate sport climbing is rare in France.
No — highest sea cliff in metropolitan France at 394 m, ranked fourth in Europe by the French sources that attempt a ranking. The Grande Tête summit is 394 m or 399 m depending on the source, and the biggest sheer drop on the marked path is about 370 m. Skip any listing that says "highest in Europe".
No. That sentence belongs to the Route des Crêtes of the Vosges (RD 431), a different road that does close each winter. No local source documents a winter closure here — the all-year Sunday rule presupposes the road is open in January. Winter's real risk is a same-day wind closure.
Four checks: Sunday (car-free all year); the "Cap Canaille" massif colour on the prefecture map in summer, published by 18:00 the day before (how to read it); wind barriers, possible any day without notice; and rare roadworks. Locked in behind a barrier? Municipal Police: Cassis 04 42 01 17 17, La Ciotat 04 42 08 65 38.
No — commercial passenger landing is prohibited park-wide, so circuits are commentary-only. The exception is the Île Verte, whose authorised landing stage is served by the 15-minute Vieux-Port shuttle: €14/€9 return, cash only, tickets on the boat.
Paths yes, pebbles no. The park permits leashed dogs, and all three Cap Canaille circuits allow them — but La Ciotat bans dogs from both the Figuerolles and Mugel beaches, and buses generally refuse animals. Plan the dog day around the clifftop walks instead.