Sorel Point

Situated next to a working quarry, this headland has a complex multistage history of moving magma. Beyond the lighthouse built in 1938, the headland stretches out into the sea in a spine of different coloured rocks.

Depending on the light, you can pick out the pink aplogranite, dark diorite and greyish hornblende gabbro. These contrasting rocks are what’s left of a magma chamber. Looking at these rocks shows how magmas of a similar age elsewhere may have formed.

Bus Route 7: from Town get off the bus at St. John's Church then turn right onto La Route du Nord and follow the road north. At the junction turn left onto (C100) La Route du Nord and follow the signs to Sorel Point.

Cycle Route 1: At the junction of La Rue du Grand Mourier and La Rue de L'Étocquet, turn left and head north. Turn left onto (C100) La Route du Nord, and follow the signs to Sorel Point.