Christa1004's photos with the keyword: Vendée

The port of Joinville-Port on the island of Yeu welcomes the traveler with this real postcard view on arrival ...

Un saunier (ou paludier) est un travailleur récoltant le sel dans les marais salants. Le mot de "saunier" désigne aussi historiquement les récoltants de sel travaillant dans des sauneries où ils obtenaient le sel en chauffant l'eau sur des feux de bois. A salt worker is a worker harvesting salt in salt marshes. The word "salt worker" also refers historically to harvesters of salt working in salt factories, where they obtained salt by heating water on wood fires.

The "Passage du Gois" is a 4,2 km passage in the sea, connecting the continent to the Noirmoutier Island. It is used since the 18th century and was the only driveway until 1971, date of the construction of a bridge. Today frequented by local oyster farmers, many fishermen on foot and tourists, the Gois is an unusual place to see. Beacons-shelters mark the passage of this submersible way, thus allowing the imprudent ones surprised by the rising tide to hoist themself up and to wait for the withdrawal of the tide (see PiP's).

Color pallet of the beach

The island of Yeu really has a little air of Greece under this bright blue sky, with its white houses and its blue shutters.

The "Vieux Château" (14th C) is a fortress standing on a rocky outcrop surrounded by the sea. It was built at the dawn of the 100-Years-War and had to withstand the repeated assaults that have marked its history. Hergé was inspired by it in the design of the Tintin adventures comic "The Black Island".