Diélette.

Diélette sits on the Cotentin Peninsula's west-facing coast, a spot that packages several distinct waves into one compact area. The headline act is a lefthand reef break that, when it fires on a solid SW-to-NW swell, throws out fast walls and hollow pockets along a shallow, boily reef bottom. It's an infrequent event - mid tide is the window most breaks here need, with the left becoming particularly punchy as the swell fills in. Shallower sections expose at lower tides, making timing critical. Just north of the harbour sits Le Platé, a steep shorebreak over sand that produces quick, hollow tubes best suited to bodyboarders. Inside the harbour wall itself, a big NW swell can generate waves, though the extension to the harbour entrance has significantly curtailed what once worked here. The lefthand reef occasionally links up into longer rides in the 50-100m range, described locally as going Indonesian on rare occasions - fast, steep and briefly spectacular. The entire zone operates within the SW-to-NW swell window, with an east wind providing clean offshore conditions. Estuary pollution is a known issue after rainfall. The nearby Flamanville nuclear facility marks the southern end of this stretch, where a boulder-point left activates on bigger swells as a further option.

Hollow pockets on a boily reef that fires only mid-tide, SW to NW.