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Beach car park, 1.5 km before the Pointe de Pen Bron.
(S/E) Take the beach access at the top of the car park and turn left onto the promenade that leads to the old hospital.
(1) Go around the hospital by following the promenade along the water's edge. At the end of the quay, you will find yourself facing Le Croisic, its church and boats. Turn left and head for the Pen Bron jetty. At high tide, the incoming and outgoing tide in the Traict is impressive.
(2) Return to the starting point by following the road and then, at the slipway, go down to the foreshore, if the tide allows. In this case, you can go around the sandy point that juts out into the Traict by following the tracks in the vegetation at the edge of the mudflats. This passageway allows you to discover the wide variety of halophytic plants (sea purslane, soda, glasswort, etc.) that make up the vegetation carpet and are sometimes covered by the sea.
On the way, you will pass by the bird observatory located below the road. It allows you to observe thousands of birds that live in this semi-aquatic, semi-terrestrial area.
(3) Follow the greenway on the right that runs alongside the road towards the car park at the entrance to the pine forest.
(4) About 250 metres before the car park, at the gate of the private property on the right-hand side of the road, turn left onto a path that leads into the pine trees, following a fence.
(5) At the corner of the fence, turn left towards the sea. Cross several types of dunes, from the pine-covered dune to the white dune right by the sea, crossing the grey dune covered with a multitude of diverse and more or less rare plants.
A warning when you reach the seashore: the beach you are walking down to is a naturist beach, covering the entire area between the white pyramid on your right and the rock formations protecting the point at the far left (approx. 1 km).
(6) Depending on the tide, you can go down to the beach and walk on the wet sand, or stay on top of the dune, where there is also a path.
In both cases, you will reach the beach access point shortly after the start of the rock formations.
Return to the road and the car park where you started is on your left (S/E).
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