Have you always dreamed of learning to surf during your holiday on the island of Oléron? Today, the Airotel Oléron **** campsite offers you a quick overview of the island's main surfing spots: technical reefs, rocky spots or fast beach breaks... beginners or experienced, there's a wave for everyone! In summer, the breakers are there and in winter, the fallback spots allow you to surf without depriving yourself!
1. The Boulassiers point for easy and frequent surfing, even in winter!
Between St Denis, the rocks and the Boulassiers point, this reef where the waves break mainly on the left is very easy to surf. In winter when the big swells saturate the Atlantic coast, some Breton and Gironde surfers do not hesitate to travel kilometers to enjoy a session on this well-sheltered spot!
2. Saint-Trojan-les-Bains Beach, ideal for learning to surf
In the south of the island, Saint-Trojan-les-Bains Beach is one of the meeting places for beginners and experienced surfers. If you are staying at the campsite with your children, you can sign them up for a surfing course at the Moana School based on the beach. A good place to learn in complete safety or improve your technique with the expert advice of qualified instructors.
3. Grand-Village Beach for surfing whatever the tide!
If you want to surf with a view of the dunes and the forest, head to Giraudière beach in Grand-Village in the southwest of theOleron Island. Thanks to a long and flat wave, it is the ideal spot to learn how to position yourself well and do your first take-offs with the Kabanasurf surf school, one of the oldest surf schools on the island of Oléron.
4. Plage des Huttes, a beautiful beach exposed to the winds in Saint-Denis d'Oléron
Huttes Beach is located in the northwest of the island. This fast and hollow beach break offers a medium to long swell and sometimes powerful waves with good hollows. Local surfers and bodyboarders enjoy meeting there from September to March when the spot is much less crowded than in summer. A little tip: watch out for the reef at low tide which could severely plane your board!
5. Pointe de Chassiron, the preserve of experienced surfers
If you are ready to take on very powerful waves, the Chassiron point is the ideal spot! At the far north of the island of Oléron, this rather technical reef is aimed at experienced surfers, because the currents are capricious and the wave requires total control. Beginners should refrain and choose a more accessible spot.
6. The Vert-Bois spot, the unmissable spot on the island of Oléron
North of Saint-Trojan and Grand-Village, Vert Bois beach is very popular with local surfers. After putting on their wetsuits, they head out to sea with their surfboards under their arms. Surfing is possible for a good part of the year, especially from March to September, preferably in the morning. In winter, the easterly winds whip up big waves that break several hundred meters from the shore and swells are frequent.
7. The legendary Allassins wave: surfing and longboarding
A hotspot for surfing and longboarding in Oléron between Vert Bois and Grand Village, the Allassins spot is suitable for experienced surfers and children alike. The waves at Allassins are not very hollow and are long enough to make this beach break usable, whatever the tide. This is where you can take surfing lessons at the Take Off school created by Volodia Pertsowsky, an iconic surfer from Oléron.