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Please note: this walk should be done before mid-tide or after mid-tide. If you do not follow this advice, you may have to remove your shoes or find an alternative route by road.
(S/E) Park in Quimiac, Rue du Mené, at number 311 (metric numbering). Take the path bordering 311 towards the sea. When you reach Toul-Ru beach, turn right at the bottom of the stairs and follow the beach. After a few rocks, you will come to another much larger beach, Cabonnais beach. Walk to the other end of the beach and go back up via the boat launch.
(1) Take the Chemin du Douanier, which overlooks the shore on the left. Continue along the path until you reach Sorloc beach, which is much busier in summer than Cabonnais beach. Continue along the beach or climb up onto the dyke covered with black asphalt. Go to the end of the beach, find the Chemin du Douanier again and continue to Pointe de Merquel.
(2) Take the path that continues along the shore to the left of the blockhouse (markedGR® White and Red). Arrive at the anchorage (drinking water available from the tap near the pontoon) and continue along the shore, following theGR® markings to the port of Kercabellec.
(3) The path joins the tarmac road, which you take on the left. A few metres after the bridge over the stream, turn left onto the wooden platform and go down the steps. Head towards the harbour bar, which you will leave on your right. Continue towards the beach and follow it. After a few hundred metres, the sand disappears and gives way to rocks. Continue until you reach the first path on your right, which you take.
(4) Follow it to the hamlet of Kervarin.
(5) In the hamlet, take the path on your left that leads to the marsh (look for theGR® markings). Continue along the path with a few houses on your right until you reach an intersection. Turn left onto the path that runs alongside the marsh, leaving theGR® markings, and follow the path until you reach a tarmac road. Turn left towards the salt shed (a wooden salt storage building).
(6) Turn left just before the saltworks and continue along the path to the sea (the path is quite wide at first but narrows at the junction with the salt workers' path). When you reach the shore, turn right and follow the beach (swimming is only possible at high tide). Continue along the beach, following a fence made of wooden posts connected by wire. This fence prohibits access to a protected bird nesting area (Natura 2000).
(7) At the sign prohibiting further access, turn around. Take the path that starts at the ganivelles fence, which widens and leads to the saltworks. 100 metres before the saltworks, take the path on the left.
Bordered by salt marshes, it leads to the Étier de la Barre (étier = narrow channel that can be several kilometres long and contains water from the sea).
(8) The fishing huts and their cabins give the place a Gironde feel. Turn around and go back to the fork, then turn left towards the saltworks. Follow this tarmac road for about 300 metres.
(9) Then take the path on the left (to make sure you're on the right track, look for a tree with a cross carved into it, with one branch painted red and the other white, theGR® mark). Follow this path until it joins a much wider track. Continue straight ahead. You will arrive at a kind of building site (sand, gravel, earth-moving equipment, etc.). Don't be put off, this is the right path!
At the tarmac road, continue straight ahead towards the hamlet of Kerroué.
(10) In the hamlet, at the top of a mini hill, take the path on the right. Wide at first, it then narrows. Continue along it until you reach a tarmac road, turn left and pass in front of an old mill.
(11) When you reach the D52B, turn left and then immediately right, along the calvary. Follow the road, which turns at a right angle after about 200 metres. Ignore the streets and paths on the left and right.
(12) At the RD252, turn right to reach the centre of Mesquer. Follow the signs for "Quimiac", which is basically straight ahead. Pass the cemetery. The road then descends slightly, rejoins the marsh and runs alongside it; after the oyster farm, arrive after the bridge on the right (marked path).
(13) Follow the path on the right that runs alongside the marsh to a tarmac road.
(14) Turn right onto this road and, after about 150 metres, turn right onto the path. After about 100 metres, you will see theGR® markings. Turn left, then after about 100 metres turn right (leaving theGR®). The path turns into a road, which then turns at a right angle to the left.
(15) You will then come to an intersection. Take Rue du Mené opposite until you reach the car park (S/E).
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