The small bay of “Les Figuières” on the Côte Bleue (just west of Marseilles) is a delightfully calm spot to enjoy the sun and the sea.
An afternoon’s snorkling reveals underwater meadows of sea grass (Posidonia oceanica), sea cucumbers, sea urchins, starfish (Echinaster sepositus) and schools of sea bream (Sarpa salpa). The rocks at the ends of the bay were covered in small banks of mussels at or near the sea surface, and isolated oysters at 2 or 3 metres depth.
