Fort-mahon-plage

Between the bay of Somme and bay of Authie, our immense beach lengthens within the framework of an exceptional and preserved nature and offers to you; space as like nowhere elsewhere for a relaxation assured on a sand d' an incomparable smoothness. In any season, it will be in turn:
- playing field for the children, tonic and reconstituting thanks to its iodized air
- sports ground for largest with our organizers or in solo, water sport and veil with the nautical base,
- departure of long walks to foot or horse
- fabulous zone of bathe adapted to all
A zone of supervised bathe is at your disposal for your safety, respect it.

In the North of Fort-Mahon-Plage runs Authie (105 kms) which separates the department from the Somme of Pas-de-Calais. The bay of Authie is a vast marine marsh that the sea recovers with the spring tides. It offers to its visitors a multitude of walks in an exceptionally preserved nature. Y
our steps will guide you in turn towards:
Mollières, vast cut salt meadow lamb of ponds. The migratory birds stop and nourish themselves during their long voyages. They cover the summer of lilac of sea and salicornes.
The Way of the Dams will lead you on the course of Authie and will make it possible even most courageous to go up the river jusqu' with the bridge with stones (of 1:30 to 3:00 of walk). The Estran opens his sandy vastness to you (zone discovered by the sea) where a fishing with the hulls is practised regulated and supervised as of many walks which will allow you to go until the sea and to join the beach.
The Dune Solid mass will reveal you the secrecies of its exceptional biotope, through the way of the fishermen and its landscapes of end of the world. The bay is a fragile universe, will know to appreciate all while preserving it of waste, the gatherings and fishings abusive.

The dunes move. The wind puts moving sand and works without stop the landscape, while the attacks of the waves cause a retreat of the dune and its constant erosion. The natural mobility of the ground is amplified by the trampling which can become catastrophic when it becomes too important. Finally for this dynamics it is necessary to add the development of the vegetation who tends to fix sand and to create dense shrubby zones since sand is stabilized. The fixing of the dunes dates from the beginning of the XVII century and aimed to avoid the movement of sand towards the inhabited areas. The plantations of pines from now on are exploited and of the arranged paths allow the discovery of the dune medium