GITES
WITH POOLS.
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Attraction in the Vendee.
La Pointe
de l'Aiguillon
L'aiguillon
( french for needle or spit) owes its name to shape of this narrow band of sand
which was formed between the 5th and 7th Centuries and strands upon a submerged
bedrock.
The sandbanks are accumulated by tidal currents and wind action and have resulted in a string of sand dunes that stretch in an 11km loop.
The once Gulf of Picton has today been reduced to the 5,000 ha of mudflats known as the "anse de l'Aiguillon", it is a bird watchers paradise as twice a year the migratory birds stop off here in there thousands and today it is a national Nature Reserve.
In the estuary of the River lay and in the Anse de l'Aiguillon there thrives an industry based on Mussels and over twenty percent of the French production of mussels are produced here.
The sandbanks are accumulated by tidal currents and wind action and have resulted in a string of sand dunes that stretch in an 11km loop.
The once Gulf of Picton has today been reduced to the 5,000 ha of mudflats known as the "anse de l'Aiguillon", it is a bird watchers paradise as twice a year the migratory birds stop off here in there thousands and today it is a national Nature Reserve.
In the estuary of the River lay and in the Anse de l'Aiguillon there thrives an industry based on Mussels and over twenty percent of the French production of mussels are produced here.
Return to
the Marais
Poitevin page for detailed information on these remarkable
marshes