Hiking tour - Charrouin Island

The circuit makes you discover the marsh of Charrouin, delimited by a meander of the Sèvre Niortaise and a straightening channel.

1. Go over the small Combrands bridge which spans the Éperon canal and reach the banks of the Sèvre Niortaise. Once you have crossed the Sèvre, you are in Vendée.

Cross Charrouin Island (protected natural area). Take a large metal bridge to cross the Sablon canal.
Follow it to the right (east) for about 100 m and turn left (passage
in the fence) to join a lift.

2. Follow this levee bordered by two canals to the right, isolated by hedges of
ash and hawthorn. We arrive at the Pont de Vix.

3. Follow the departmental road lined with canals and shaded for 800 m to the right.
Cross the Sèvre at the Pont du Sablon: we find ourselves in Charente-Maritime.

4. Take the levee on the right.
It separates the wet marsh of the Sèvre (including Charroin Island) from the dry marsh of Taugon. On the dry marsh side, the waters flow into the Banche canal, while on the wet marsh side they flow towards the Sèvre. As the
Sèvre is prone to flooding, only the wet marsh is a flood zone.

After a first inhabited house, the levee runs between two hedges leaving barely
see the channels.