Water sports and leisure activities France

Located in the rowing, initiation, courses, walking and discovery of Scorff in summer.

Looking for a sporty and friendly break? With friends or family, young and old, the Inzinzac-Lochrist white water park is a fun area accessible to all. In a river with obstacles and currents, you will slalom on a course designed for kayaking at all levels. Sensations guaranteed! The canoe lift, the only one of its kind in France, allows you to go up the river effortlessly, and leave on the rough waters. The white water park also offers canoe trips along the Blavet, for half a day or several days.

Water sports activities on three sites: two offer leisure activities on the sea (base des Demoiselles and base de la grande plage de Sion) and one on water (base des Vallées). For young and old: optimist, dinghy, catamaran, windsurf, kayak, sand yacht. Equipment rental and courses for groups and individuals. The base of Sion is an invigorating site for water sports; the base of Demoiselles is suitable for sand yachting. At the base of the Valleys, you will be able to sail with confidence on a 10 hectare inland water area.

Semvie Nautisme brings together the Boisvinet sailing school, a surfing school and a cruising school. Practice sailing (optimist, catamaran, windsurfing...), surfing, sand yachting on the large beach of Saint-Gilles. The surf school offers courses and rentals and longe-côte. "Jardin des mers" from 5 years old. Discover the joys of snow sports thanks to the wakepark, a "bi-pulley" ski lift located on the Soudinière lake, from 8 years old. With a multi-activity and adapted supervision, the Semvie Nautisme is also a handicapped access all year round.

For lovers of water, wind, speed and thrills, the nautical base offers these activities: surfing, sailing (catamarans or optimists), sand yachting, windsurfing, kite surfing, stand-up paddle, kayak rental. New : discover the wing Skate, a kind of skateboard ! In courses, by the session or for rent, services supervised by instructors. After the effort or simply to enjoy the panoramic view, go and have a drink at the bar of the nautical base, and enjoy one of the most beautiful views of the resort.

Discover the Olonnes marsh in a different way: by renting a canoe or a paddle! This rental company is located just before arriving at Les Salines, and besides, a combined ticket of the two sites is proposed including the visit of the Salt Adventure Park and a 1h canoe ride on the Olonne marsh. Departure of the hikes at the place called L'Aubraie. By canoe or paddle, alone or with your family, you will appreciate the diversity of the fauna and flora of a preserved wild site. Family outing with the Adventure package that we recommend you to do.

Built in Les Sables-d'Olonne in 1955, the boat sailed to tuna fishing. Today the Kifanlo, classified as a historic monument in 1984, offers exits of 2 h 30. Discovery of the profession of fisherman. Walk at sea to discover the craft of fishermen and their fishing techniques. This trawler offers sea exits and makes an approach to the fishing of fishermen and different fishing techniques, including trawl.

Committed to the Famille Plus approach, the CNT is open all year round. The station has 5 spots close to each other. Activities on offer: windsurfing, catamaran, surfing, stand-up paddle, kite-surfing and for children: mini-catamarans (from 11 years old), optimist (from 7 years old), surfing (from 8 years old) and windsurfing (from 7 years old). In the summer, the CNT offers one-week courses. Rinsing area for the equipment. The 6-hectare lake is ideal for sailing initiations.

KOA is the name of a rare wood species. It is from this wood that the Hawaiians originally made their surfboards. On the beach of La Terrière, this school offers surfing lessons for all ages, from beginners to advanced. On one of the best beaches of the Vendée for the practice of this sport, discover the joys of surfing, perfect your style and your maneuvers. Equipped with high performance material, we give you the means to progress quickly and serenely whatever your level. We also offer skateboarding lessons from 9 years old.

Specialized in windsurfing, Wave School offers beginners and advanced windsurfers: courses, training courses, equipment rental, paddle. Special courses for children, with a lightweight board to learn in a fun way. The singularity of this school: a Windfoil center, a board equipped with a foil. The windfoil is the latest evolution of windsurfing, it will bring you a pure and light gliding sensation above the water. You are a windsurfer, you sail with your feet in the straps: you can fly! What a pleasure on the water!

Of all the Vendée's seabeds, those of the wild coast are the most diversified and interesting, and Sub'Evasion is a club of competent enthusiasts. You will dive on different marine sites. Baptism, exploration, initiation, passing of certificates, training course on week-ends. Diving being a regulated sport, it is better to take all the information before. This company also offers training for the boat license, because it is necessary for motor boats of more than 6hp and for any day/night navigation up to 6 nautical miles from a shelter.

This professional offers single or two-seater kayak rental for 1 hour or half a day, or a 1.5 hour accompanied trip. The rental point is located on the beach of Les Vieilles or Marais Salé depending on the weather. This French school of Caval Kayak also offers training courses, for children and adults, courses supervised by qualified instructors. The meeting point is at the Marais Salé and at the beach of the Vieilles. Another original feature is that you can also learn to navigate in a dugout canoe, in groups of 5 maximum and for a duration of 1h30 to 2h.

Located in Baie de la Pipe, 10 minutes from the port, the Ile d'Yeu sailing school is ideally situated on the beach. A wide choice of courses and services for all ages, supervised by qualified instructors. From catamaran to kayak, windsurfing to Hobie Cat and stand-up paddle. And a new discipline, offered as a course or by the session: wingfoil! There are also courses for children and a chance to discover the marine environment with Jardin des Mers.

Created in 2004, the school is on the beach of the sailing school in Fromentine. All the courses take place after a transport in semi-rigid on benches of immersed sands. The school provides inflatable wings (4 lines, from 5 to 14 m²), twin tips floats for beginners or advanced learners, wetsuits, inflatable jackets, helmets, harnesses. The courses take place over 4 hours per day. Group lessons or private lessons, over 1, 2 or 3 days. The latter take place from a boat, in deep or shallow water.

This is the^1st sand yachting center in the Sud-Vendée. It offers an introduction to sand yachting, training courses and, for more experienced enthusiasts, excursions and more sporting activities. Discover the exceptional site of the Pointe d'Arçay on a sand yacht. The activity takes place on the beach at La Faute-sur-Mer, with a 12 km zone in winter starting from Plage des Bélugas, and an 800 m zone in July and August between Plage de la Grande Casse and Plage Grand Plage. Program: 3-hour hike. Accessible to beginners and those aged 12 and over.

The best way to discover the Venise Verte is to rent a river boat to be close to nature and enjoy the unique landscape of the green lentils covering the étiers. The pier "La grenouille Bleue" welcomes you for a boat trip (with or without a guide), canoeing or pedal boat in the conches, canals and gullies starting from the port of Damvix. Take a break on the shaded terrace at the water's edge and have a snack on the spot.

At the foot of La Maison du Marais and the guinguette Le Débar'c, take a seat in one of the boats on the so-called dry part of the Marais Poitevin. Take the time to observe the characteristic fauna and flora of the marsh. On the way, you will learn to recognize the iris and the pyramidal orchid, and you will see swans, storks, herons and coypu... You will learn more thanks to the information panels set up on this new 3 kilometers long route.

Enjoy jet-skiing on a 33-hectare site with a lake, sandy beach and Caribbean atmosphere. The saddle jet is a fun, family-friendly machine that delivers great sensations. For the more sporty, the arm jet, a cross between surfing and motocross, can be ridden standing up. The Banana Rocket is a giant banana on which you are towed. New activity: Aquaparc, a giant floating course (from age 6). Or just enjoy the beach and stilted terrace. Multi-activity packages for seminars, birthdays...

The surf spot of La Sauzaie is the reference spot of the region. Characterized by a hollow and powerful wave, this spot of "reef" (rocky platier) offers pretty peaks surfable only at mid-tide and at high tide. This spot is not recommended for beginners, reserved for the initiated, with waves of 1 m to 2 m. The spot is lit every night from April to September. The best conditions to enjoy this wave: no wind or offshore (the spot does not support west and south winds), between 2 hours before and 2 hours after high tide.

The Plage des Dunes is one of the most beautiful beaches in Brétignolles, as it stretches for several kilometres. Just like Longeville-sur-Mer, the coast of Bretignolles is one of the top surfing spots in the Vendée. One of them is Plage des Dunes 1, at the place called "Le Petit Rocher", located between the Normandelière beach and the Dunes 1 lifeguard station. This surfing spot offers a sandy coastline, suitable for all types of surfers whatever their level, even beginners. It is also possible to surf on the Plage des Dunes 2.

This Handisurf certified school offers lessons from 6 years old. For beginners or to improve your skills. In July and August, the lessons and rental structure is located on the Dunes 1 beach opposite the surfing area. Practical and theoretical teaching on the knowledge of the environment, the equipment, the weather, safety... Surfing, body-boarding and paddle lessons (given on the Dunes beach) are available from the age of 6 (condition: have a 50 m swimming certificate). Out of season, surfing lessons are available.

The municipal sailing school is located on the beach of La Normandelière. Initiation and improvement courses, where private lessons in various nautical activities: Optimist, catamaran, windsurfing or kayaking. The base also welcomes groups and sea classes, it also provides equipment rental: catamaran, windsurfing, kayak and paddle. The sailing school also offers leisure sailing activities on Wednesdays and Saturdays from April to June and from September to November. New: windsurffoil, windsurfing board equipped with a foil.

This lake is located between Coëx and Saint-Révérend. A place that the fishermen know well since it is authorized to fishing. This lake of 37 hectares was created for the irrigation of the cultures and the Golf of Coex. The compacted clay dam, built on the Gué-Gorand stream, has created a water reservoir covering more than 25 hectares. A footpath allows you to walk around the reservoir by crossing the dam. You can see a very old chestnut tree with two trunks. The circuit of the lake of Gué-Gorand (12,9 km, approximately 3h30 of walk).

This 127-hectare reservoir extends over 5 communes: Sigournais, Monsireigne, Bazoges-en-Pareds and Tallud-Sainte-Gemme, offering hikers numerous trailheads, particularly on the La Morlière site. It is the largest water reservoir in the Grand Lay Valley. Set in a landscape of grassy or rocky hillsides, it is home to a colony of migrating ducks in the fall. As for leisure activities, nature lovers will be delighted: fishing (all white fish, pike-perch, pike-perch, carp), swimming, children's games, picnic tables.

This 55 hectare reservoir stretches along the river Lay with a succession of valleys and ends at the reservoir of the Angle Guignard dam. Along the lake, there are walking paths. The path along the lake allows you to reach the village of Fuiteau with its washhouse. On the leisure programme: swimming and fishing (with a pontoon for disabled people between Moulin Neuf and Touchegray), and canoeing (canoes for hire for 1 to 3 people), picnic area.

On the beach of Notre-Dame de Monts. Here, we offer you the following activities: sand yacht, catamaran, and since 2020 surfing - initiation, training courses, improvement. You can also take part in nautical regattas. Other activities on offer: stand-up puddle, coastal longe, sea kayaking, towed buoy (from 15/06 to 30/08), canoe trips in the Breton marshes. The sand yachting activity is adapted to disabled people with the supervision of a competent staff.

Mathieu Mercier welcomes 6 months of the year on the beach of Sauveterre, Olonne-sur-Mer, for surf/bodyboard lessons in homogeneous groups allowing an initiation and a fast improvement with the element, ensuring a secure approach of the marine environment. Equipment adapted to the size and level of each person is provided. This beach offers waves suitable for this practice, the sandy bottom allows to evolve safely. Since 2020, a foil school in Les Sables-d'Olonne, called Ohana Foil, to fly over the waves and practice foiling!

Discover Lac du Jaunay by the water, at La Baudrière, Saint-Julien-des-Landes, as well as at Le Pré and La Chapelle-Hermier, thanks to the recreational areas set up on the shores of Lac du Jaunay. You can rent canoes, kayaks and pedal boats for an unusual trip to discover the attractive shores of Jaunay. Canoes-kayaks and pedal boats for hire: information at the Le Pin Parasol campsite in La Chapelle Hermier (tel.) 02 51 34 64 72. Picnic areas are available for a day's snack on this magnificent site.

O'Abandonado offers sea outings aboard an old 1916 coaster for 18 passengers. Two-hour daytime and sunset cruises. Sea class, group and seminar outings are also organized. Every Sunday in July and August, take part in our day trips to the Ile du Pilier, a unique site where you can discover its history and monuments. Boat rental available for groups.

Crowned "Top club" in 2020 and 2021 by the French Sailing Federation, the Fort Saint-Pierre Nautical Center offers various formulas for learning to sail or improving your sailing skills in a superb setting and under ideal conditions. Weekly courses: sea garden (4-6 years), Optimist, dinghy, windsurfing, catamaran... Private lessons (all types of boats including wingfoil), family outings in a collective sailboat, multi-activity courses for teenagers, paddle outings, etc.

A unique concept in France, created by the Comité régional de canoë-kayak and managed by Pagaies des Bords de Saône. Meet at the canoe-kayak base, where volunteers will provide you with your equipment (single- or double-seater boat, life jacket, paddles, etc.), and then it's up to you to choose your loop: Petit EcoPagayeurs for families, or Petite or Grande boucle Cîteaux. Discover the river's biodiversity on loops labeled Sentiers Nautiques by the Fédération Française de canoë-kayak.

Between meadows and forests, Belmont-de-la-Loire invites you into the heart of its beautiful hills. The leisure center, with its campsite and gîtes, welcomes you to a green and peaceful setting. On site you'll find a variety of activities for the whole family: playground, hiking trails, boules, paddling pool, fishing, trails around the lake, pony rides, picnic areas with barbecues... For sports enthusiasts, there's a climbing wall, mountain bike hire, tennis court, volleyball court, basketball court, ping-pong table, soccer pitch and fitness trail. Watch out, you'll love it!

Aboard real Canadian wood-epoxy canoes, let yourself glide quietly down the Yonne River to discover the Vaux-d'Yonne: the charm of its beautiful villages and the freshness of the woods will make these rides unforgettable. An outing in all serenity, possible from 8 years old (provided you can swim!), on this peaceful river. A white water descent is also possible. Paddling school on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons, competition club. Live a unique experience with your family or friends!

Created in 1973, this vast park of hectares within a loop of the Saône is designed as a real leisure base that creates the attraction of families and hikers. Pleasure of eyes with the arboretum and the rose rose, calm, between green area and banks of Saône, pleasure of play with space for children, pleasures of sport with golf, health course and many other sports facilities. A pedestrian journey, for a contrainte ride (or almost, dogs must be kept in leash), in the light of your curiosity and preferences.

Located at the water's edge, on the Belles Rives side, near the bridge. This structure proposes to rent inflatable stand-up paddles and urban long boards, innovative products for all sizes. They organize supervised walks with the possibility of picnicking. But also initiation sessions of yoga and meditation, on a Yoga Flower at sunrise and sunset to fully enjoy a moment of well-being and awakening unifying body and mind. For those who are more chilly, yoga clothes are available in the private showroom.

Located in a wooded setting, this artificial lake of about ten kilometres long is sometimes difficult to access but it is worth the effort. Although swimming is not allowed, it attracts fishermen and windsurfers. It is also dotted with numerous hiking trails and offers the possibility of picnicking in peace. From the lake, a 53-kilometre hiking trail, inaugurated in 2002, leads to the Banquet Gorge. Vertiginous, wedged between the rock and the thick forest, it is an astonishing spectacle that never disappoints.

In a beautiful green setting, you can enjoy 3 pools. In winter, swimmers are warm in a tropical atmosphere. Children can play in a play pool with a slide, water games and a whirlpool. For experienced swimmers, there is a 25-meter sports pool for training. Aquabikes are available from Monday to Friday. Outside, a heated pool is available all year round. It is possible to sign up for swimming or aquagym classes.

It is an open-air pool with three pools and a large diving board to relax and refresh at the height of the summer heat.

Surrounded by the Orléans forest, this 70-hectare pond was originally a reservoir for the Orléans canal. It is now a place for walks and leisure activities, with areas reserved for swimming and others for navigation (canoeing, kayaking, etc.). Two hiking trails have been developed: the sensory path of Carnutes and the Bois Bézards which goes around the pond and goes to the lookout Caillettes, the highest point of the forest of Orleans. The pond Combreux finds its counterpart with the pond of Bois, located in Vieilles-Maisons.

The leisure center covers 27 hectares, more than half of which are occupied by the water. Numerous sports and outdoor activities are possible: walks, fishing, volleyball, ping-pong, petanque ground, sailing school, archery. It is also possible to rent all the necessary equipment such as windsurfing, optimist sailboat, dinghy, catamaran, pedal boat, mountain bike, canoe. There are children's games and a picnic area.

Do not go to Sully in the summer season without taking a tour through this water centre! Dabbling or large swimmers, each will find its own account. Here you can watch the smallest in the paddling pool as well as enjoy in a whirlpool. The big pool will fill the athletes when the teens follow the slides in the giant slide (42 m slide). But what gives its name to the swimming pool is the wave basin (33 m long), which we're looking at every five minutes, every hour. Slide runs, polo shooting, water-basketball, carpet races, inflatable structures, diving diving and rafting are part of the proposed animations.

The Aviron Bayonnais Omnisports has 24 sections: aikido, athletics, rowing, basketball, English boxing, cycling, soccer, fencing, handball, judo, swimming, pelota, pro rugby, tennis, chess, pirogue... Its past is rich in victories and its present no less so. For several years now, Aviron has been working closely with San Sebastian and Guipuzkoa to develop certain disciplines. Thanks to this partnership, leisure sports have taken on a new dimension within the club.

The El Hogar multisport center also has a 25-meter swimming pool. A relaxing activity par excellence, it keeps you in contact with the water all year round, since it's open both summer and winter. The pool has a removable roof that can be partly opened in fine weather. A lifeguard takes care of supervision. Learn-to-swim lessons are available. A solarium with a wooden terrace completes the offer. The city-center pool is well served by bus routes and has ample parking.

From Givrand, canoe, kayak, paddle or pedal boat rides. Navigation is on the Jaunay river, a calm river, accessible to all. You will admire the Vendée landscapes in a Natura 2000 protected area. After crossing the marshes and the forest, you will follow the dunes and arrive at the heart of the seaside resort. Make a stopover in Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie and discover its fishing and yachting port, its beaches and numerous activities. Night tours by reservation organized in July and August.

In this leisure center, water activities will delight lovers of aquatic sensations but also artists of strolling! Skilifts, water games, water jumps, inflatable games, slides, and stand up paddle rentals create this "new generation" space. In this setting where it is as pleasant to move as to stop, deckchairs and a restaurant area are available for a relaxing break. An open-air space where each member of the family will find something to do among the many activities.

An open-air swimming pool heated to 28°C, the Aquaparc has the largest outdoor pool in the Rhône-Alpes region (1,200^m2), a paddling pool and a giant slide for hours of play in the cool water. Built in a green setting, it is undoubtedly the flagship attraction of the Vallée Bleue site. More than a swimming pool, it is a real leisure area where bathers can sunbathe and play ball games (volleyball) and rackets. Aquagym classes are also held there.

Fancy a canoe trip on the Dordogne? If so, don't hesitate to make an appointment with Canoë Castillonnais by phone or on Facebook. The company offers two routes of 6 to 12 km, departing from Lamothe-Montravel and Pessac-sur-Dordogne. Allow around 1h30 for the first route and 3h for the second. Meet at Les Batailleurs campsite! Departures are possible in the morning or afternoon. This is a great activity for two, family or friends. Reservations recommended!

Numerous sailboats and owner's launches on the site. Regattas organized with results, since the club, founded in 1993, has been ranked first in Aquitaine for four consecutive years. It's a magnificent playground for lovers of fun and itinerant sailing. With over 150 active members, the YCH is one of the main drivers of local boating activity. A key partner in the organization of sporting events promoted by the port and the town council. Once moored, discover an authentic region where land and sea are one.

Admire the great sailors and competitors! This center will introduce you to water sports. Affiliated with the FFV (French Sailing Federation) and holding the "Ecole Française de Voile" and "Point Plage" labels, it's the benchmark structure for learning to sail, supervised from age 8 in Optimist, age 12 in Catamaran, age 14 in Déclic, from age 12 in Magnum 21, with State-qualified instructors... With courses from Easter to the end of summer, from 2 days to a week. At the same time, thanks to the Nautical Pass, you can go from a catamaran tour to a kayak trip.

Jo Moraiz was a precursor in this field and we can consider that it is him who brought surfing to Biarritz in the sixties. He created the^first surf shop before setting up the^first surf school in 1966, which is still world famous today. He is credited with the first and only teaching method adopted by the Federation as the basis for training for federal and state certificates. A school that also offers accommodation for students.