PORT DU BEC - PORT DE L'EPOIDS
Visit the port of Le Bec, whose architecture earned it the nickname of a small Chinese port in Bouin.
We love this place with its authentic charm, as if frozen in time! The port of Bec (or Port de l'Epoids) is located at the mouth of the Dain estuary, at l'Epoids, straddling two municipalities: Beauvoir-sur-Mer and Bouin. Its original architecture with its wooden pontoons on stilts make its typicality, and is reminiscent of Asian ports with their bamboo structures, which earned it its nickname of "little Chinese port", given by former sailors of Epoids, who left to fight in the China Sea, on their return. With its fifty-seven pontoons made of wood and poles intertwined on the left bank and forty-seven on the right bank, it has been listed in the inventory of sites in the Vendée since 1942. The port of Le Bec is above all an oyster farming port. The production of Beauvoir oysters, very famous for their flavour in ancient times, was flourishing there until they disappeared around 1920; it was only in the 1950s that oyster farmers from Marennes set up beds to revive this production, which today is close to 10,000 tonnes of oysters per year, oysters bearing the "Vendée Atlantique" label. The port of Le Bec is now the most important of the four oyster ports in Bouin. Stop at an oyster shack to taste a dozen oysters. A few hundred metres further on, at the foot of the Bouin wind farm, a polder is home to around 120 oyster farmers.
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