On the Emerald Coast between Pointes de la Varde and Pointes du Grouin

_ Start _: Follow the D201 coastal road to the Rafale campsite and Touesse beach.
The car park is located 300m from the main road.

(S/E) Leave the car park by the access road and, after 50m, at the crow's feet, turn right onto the road closed to all traffic.
The road soon becomes a gravel path. Follow it around a bend to the left, then to the right, and you're on the Route de la Guimorais.
Turn right and continue around the bend to the left towards the entrance to Camping des Chevrets.

(1) Leave the campsite entrance on your right and take the gravel path on your left.
Follow the foreshore to the road. At this point, depending on the height of the sea, either descend onto the foreshore or continue along the road or its left-hand side (a path may be visible along the fence).

(2) At the car park, return to the road and, after a chicane, enter the Île Besnard protected site. Follow the path around the peninsula, skirting the coastline as closely as possible.
The tour of the island ends at the car park. In the middle of the car park, turn left up the log staircase that leads to the path running alongside the road and beach.

(3) Go round it, leaving the bar/restaurant on your left, then, as the road bends, take the coastal path on your right.
Ignore all paths and tracks on the right.

Red and white GR^®34 waymarkers

Continue along the path, which has some challenging sections both uphill and downhill. It heads due north as far as the Pointe du Meinga.

(4) Follow the path as it turns South-East then South, always keeping close to the shore.

(5) Take the left-hand path and follow the meandering path.

No waymakers

(6) Leave the GR^® and turn right up the log and sand staircase to the car park (S/E).

_ Start & Parking_: Follow the D201 coastal road to the Rafale campsite and Touesse beach.
The car park is located 300m from the main road.

_ Terrain_: While the Île Besnard tour is relatively quiet, the Pointe du Meinga tour is much advanced,
with short rocky sections. Hence the "Medium" classification, as it's not for everyone.

_ Please note _: The eastern part of Plage des Chevrets, near Les Nielles, is a naturist beach (tolerated,
although prohibited by municipal by-law).

_ To see nearby _: Rothéneuf and the sculpted rocks

The Abbé Fouré (the abbott Fouré) created a monumental work of art, carved directly onto the rocks, frescoes sculpted in the open air, at the mercy of marine erosion. For thirteen or fourteen years, from the end of 1894 to 1907, he carved over 300 statues on this remarkable set of granite rocks overlooking the sea.
The Abbé created numerous wooden sculptures in his village house known as "Haute Folie", "Hermitage de Rothéneuf" or "Maison de l'Ermite", later also known as the "Musée Bois".
In 1907, struck down by paralysis and speech difficulties, he was forced to stop all his activities. He can be seen resting in his famous armchair in the house where he died on February 10, 1910.