Saturday, 18 October 2014

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Carnon is not particularly pretty as a seaside resort. This station is the product of urban civilization. I prefer it after a storm, when the weather washed away the beach, making it more wild, it said with more cachet.

After the red flag and weather alerts from the same color, now the weather is good and suitable for swimming. The water is 21 ° in the 3 October 2014 waves approach then spread out on the sand.

Carnon, it is a life for some Montpellier because it is the marina of Montpellier. They find their past and memories of the first holiday with camping, beachfront shacks and freedom. Ponds, the smell of seaweed, pontoons where the boats tied collide their lateen sails, that's what I'm talking about.

Formerly Carnon was called Carnonville-la-Mer. And if one goes back in time, the story reminds us of the Barony of Carnon. Grau said port Carnon is quoted as 1303 is the property of the Knights of Malta which will keep him until the Revolution. Ancient texts show that the place was unlivable by mosquitoes, but also by the presence of pirates, of pestilential odors, siltation and poor water quality. Wetlands were sparsely populated as subject to malaria and raids.
Originally, this passsait in these small houses with courtyard at the rear. The shacks of Grassion-Cibrand avenue surrounded themselves with brats. By scrutinizing the past, the biggest chore was assigned to the blocks of ice they had to fetch the daily car. This allowed to keep the fish of the day and crabs caught in the rocks of the channel.

At the time, there were no facilities, no running water. The supply of drinking water was in Palavas, using phony. The wastewater flowed into hidden by thickets of reeds before joining the wetlands of this vast stream. Behind, it was promised that pond one day to the creation of the new port. The pond communicates with the sea by the "Grau Carnon." The all-mains drainage will come as 1980.

On the beach, pet dealers push their cart to try inconditonnelle ages. But it is reported that already in 1858, Jean Jovenel Pérols selling refreshments on the right bank and left Carnon.

At pastis, no convenience and everyone had to bring his folding chair. Around Bijus, grilled sardines and a few mussels, discussion enmêlait.

In the evening the dancing roamed the pier along with mosquitoes. It was carelessness or happiness.

Fishermen find evening storm on the dam to fish for bream, the only one that does not fit in one hand. At that time did not allow the film to bring a photo to make sense of reality, then each related his fishing and took the air of Marseille! The names remain anchored as Emile Bruel & Lucie.

If we dive into the past, we discover that until 1288, fishing was done in the platform, that is to say the small boat without a mast or sail on the lake. It was "the globe" variant that uses a square net. Then later, they used a linear thread called "Trémaille" 100 meters long held by two poles at each end and in which the fish caught by the gills. The pond was damaged during the construction of the Grande Motte, in 72 years and led to the change in the mud turned black when she was gray. The maniguières and weirs are no longer maintained. Here are the scars of urban pollution, pond side. In the 50, 200 families lived on fishing.

By 1905, installing furnished leads to the presence of the bourgeoisie of Montpellier.

The dune belongs southeast side to the station Carnon. In the pond, you can catch Jols, bream, wolves, and when autumn arrives small soles. The pond with a depth of 80 cm was not previously linked to the sea. It is through the waters of another pond called "pond Avranches" he was in communication with the sea, while he was separated by the channel ponds. This pond fed by four rivers with Vidourle is full of water birds such as ducks and scoters. It is even recorded that there were puffins!

The new city center was born in the 70s he took two rows of housing and moved to the new port with its blocks of flats where the wind can not be swallowed. Its location gave him his reputation.

Small shops are full of souvenirs of all kinds and it is not uncommon to find the same horrors of scenery shell on each kitchen cabinet, along with the thermometer in the shape of dolphin.

The political corner is sitting pool on the quay along much later the new port. This is where we debate if Carnon must remain attached to Mauguio or finally be recognized as a separate town.

One of the oldest houses which lies at the water's edge is noted for its round tower above the first floor. It's called "The anthill" and is at the end of the left bank on the way to La Grande Motte. Why "Anthill", can I tell you?

The names of villas Carnon has meaning, they evoke the architecture, the owner. Thus we find "Villa Germaine", "My Dream House", "Ant" ...
The coastal erosion is a natural dynamic and despite human efforts, it can not be prevented. Urbanization exacerbates natural processes. Carnon has little exposure to storms. The frequency is every three years and as a result, the sea is gaining ground!

You know, the "saladelle" this plant steeped in tradition? It is also called "sea lavender." If you follow the roubines, the road is lined with saladelle. The roubines are like trenches dug by man to drain the water. On the right bank of the pond, sea side, the ground is muddy and the vegetation is composed of Salicornia. Salicornia when he is young is edible. It is eaten raw or vinaigrette. Where cane, you enter the "Sansouire" space between land and water. When the ponds are crushed by the weight of the sky, the ground cracks and forms a crust that gives infinity, the appearance of the desert. The tamarisk is the most typical tree because it is resistant to salt and Mediterranean climate.

Plovers live in the mudflats. They are part of the family "charadrius" which includes 67 species. This is a shorebird, where vegetation is short and dotted. It breeds in spring and form a nest directly on the ground covered with debris shell.

For curiosities, except the bridge that connected the two banks before and lost in the lake of the house, however, I found none other. Buildings replace the historic seaside homes and the land retained only the word "tourist". To protect the mass departures to Spain, construction was large but not as architecture at the Grande-Motte.

When the word "beauty" on the search engines only brings the vision of the beauty shop on the avenue, I find no other reference points for you mean his absence.

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