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La Côte Soufflée

France métropolitaine · France

What have people found?

Bread-crumb sponge, spiral wrack and brown tuning-fork weed turn up here more than at our other rock pools. Atlantic beadlet anemone, strawberry anemone and lined top shell are the usual finds. ~45 distinct species have been recorded here. More has been recorded at Saint-Germain-sur-Ay-Plage, 55 kilometers away.

What is the best time to visit today?

Download the app to see the 7-day schedule.

See low tide times at La Côte Soufflée for the next three days
  1. Sun 15 Novin the dark~4:00~16:30
  2. Mon 16 Novin the dark~5:00in the dark~17:30
  3. Tue 17 Novin the dark~5:30in the dark~18:30

Every low tide each day, in local time at the shore.

Plan the week in Intertidal
  • A tide chart for every day, with the best window marked
  • Identify what you find from a photo
  • An alert when a good daylight low is coming

When do people visit?

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Most observations come from January and September.

What should you know before visiting?

Parking is about 350 meters away.
Arrive 45 minutes to an hour before low tide and leave as it turns. The water comes back faster than it left.
Grippy shoes beat sandals. Wet rock and algae are more slippery than they look. Rock pool safety
A rock pool is a fragile place. Look and photograph, take nothing. The rockpooling code

What lives at La Côte Soufflée?

Species records from iNaturalist

Atlantic Beadlet AnemoneActinia equina
Strawberry AnemoneActinia fragacea
Lined Top ShellPhorcus lineatus
snakelocks anemoneAnemonia viridis
brown tuning-fork weedBifurcaria bifurcata
Common Sea SlaterLigia oceanica
Blue-rayed LimpetPatella pellucida
Common European LimpetPatella vulgata
Atlantic DogwhelkNucella lapillus
European Green CrabCarcinus maenas
Broadleaf Sea LettuceUlva lactuca
Spiral WrackFucus spiralis
Northern Acorn BarnacleSemibalanus balanoides
Bread-crumb SpongeHalichondria panicea
Star TunicateBotryllus schlosseri
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