Noirmoutier - La Chaloupe

This Vision-Environnement webcam looks over La Chaloupe on the island of Noirmoutier, on the French Atlantic coast. It is one of the operator's live streams, so the picture updates continuously rather than refreshing as a still. La Chaloupe sits beside the water on an island reached by the Passage du Gois causeway and the bridge at Fromentine, and the camera's use is straightforward: read the tide, the wind and the sky before deciding anything. Low water opens the oyster and mussel beds and the mudflats; high water fills the channel and brings boats back in. Check it in the morning for the day's conditions, at the turn of the tide, or during an Atlantic low when the swell running up the coast is the thing everyone wants to see. It is filed among the other cams France listings.