Quend-beach resort

The Marquenterre is a vast wetland situated in a triangle-Quend Beach, Crotoy Street, Saint-Quentin-en-Tourmont sheltering inside this natural resource. Tourism will meet a beautiful harmony with nature.

Quend-range and its surrounding area offers many activities for the whole family: School tank sailing In sessions 2 or 3 hours, depending on programmed schedules tides, learn the techniques and maneuvers on a marked path and explore the vast sandy beach that is offered to you on guided walks. Adaptation sessions, beginner or advanced level by the trainees. Excursion Boat Aboard a boat suitable and safe, go for a walk along the coast of Picardy and its major ports and seaside resorts (Ault Cayeux-sur-Mer, Saint-Valery-sur-Somme, Crotoy ...) . 2:30 on kayak that will help you better understand the specifics of the most beautiful bay in the world: the Bay of Somme.

A new space designed on the theme of a pirate ship where the imagination of your young adventurers expressed by inventing ever new stories, each of which is of course the hero. Access reserved for 2 to 10 years under the responsibility of parents or adult supervision. Toddler secure a space for smaller (2 to 4 years) Simulators, video games, radio control trucks and boats.

The guided walks are proposed to cross the Bay of Somme without risk of departure Crotoy, lunch on the banks of Saint-Valery-sur-Somme, in the afternoon, discover fresh sea kayaking a other shore of the Baie de Somme.

3 The Observatories of the Somme Bay, Le Crotoy northern fishing port in central Saint-Valery-sur-Somme and Le medieval Hourdel south you can see a seal colony (more than one hundred) swimming in the estuary in search of food at high tide and lolling on the altars in low tide.

Initially Crotoy, enter the station of the old company "Railway Economics" and find yourself in 1900. Go see the steam engine around which the busy "engineer" and "driver", then you install in the car 3rd class! Whistle, the train starts. You cross the "renclotures, those fields that were reclaimed from the sea by building dikes. But now Noyelles-sur-Mer, where in 1900 the "Railway Economy" gave the correspondence with the "Chemin de Fer du Nord. After a maneuver, the train started and committed on a dam that crosses the Bay of Somme. From here you have the best view of the bay, with Crotoy right and his house with turrets, Saint Valery left which you can see the boats returning to port. You have plenty of time to observe the many birds: swans, herons, avocets. And there, a shepherd and his sheep. Sheep salt marshes, because at high tide, these pastures are covered by the sea The train whistles passing the "deposit". This is the place where restored steam locomotives. But already the train entered the bridge over the Somme, then entered Saint Valery sur Somme. Crossing the Bay lasted an hour. It's that time of railway side, it was traveling at 35km / h. After a short visit to St. Valery, which allowed time to complete its locomotive water supply, you go back in the car for a return equally surprising.

Share the life of the last century Picards Close to the medieval town of Saint-Valery-sur-Somme, the museum is an exceptional Picarvie concentrated local memory. Its founder, Paul Longuein brought together for thirty years more than 6 000 tools, unparalleled control of agricultural activities, craft workers and domestic Picards last century. Enter in this rural village faithfully recreated and learn forty trades of yesteryear. Observe the locksmith re-cutting his files, the peeling wicker basket maker, the blacksmith working his huge blow, peasant scutching flax, wheelwright assembling a wheel ... Treat yourself to a journey through time. Give free rein to your imagination and make yourself at one of the desks at school. Unless you'd rather enjoy a drink in the bar of the Grand 'Place. Finally, be sure to observe the work of the farm and visit the home typically Picardy.