Anchorage

Cap Rousset

4.2FranceVar

Shelter: N, NE, E, S, SE
Seabed: sand, rock, algae
Anchoring: Allowed

Anchorage on the north coast of Porquerolles, west of the island, off a rocky headland in the Parc national de Port-Cros.

Beach
Seagrass

Guide

Approach and anchoring

Approach from the Petite Passe between Giens peninsula and Porquerolles. The bottom mixes sand, rock and seagrass, so look for clear sand patches to drop the anchor and avoid the protected posidonia meadows. The cove is small and takes only one or two boats, the sand a single patch in about 5 metres in the middle, the spot to aim for. Rock lies close off the southern point. An unmarked submarine cable crosses the cove and has fouled an anchor here, so buoy the anchor. Shelter from N, NE, E, S and SE.

Practical

No facilities. Anchoring on posidonia is prohibited in the Parc national de Port-Cros core zone; stick to sand patches in 5 to 10 metres. Port de Porquerolles lies 1.3 NM east for water and provisions. Port Auguier is 1.7 NM north-west on the Giens peninsula.

Ashore

Porquerolles village and its beaches, Plage Notre-Dame and Plage d'Argent, are reachable by tender or on foot from the village pontoon. A small beach lies at the head of the cove, with a footpath to Porquerolles village about an hour away. The island is part of the Parc national de Port-Cros, created in 1963.