Les Minimes Marina, La Rochelle
We’re in here somewhere
A quick post about what happens when man gets it wrong vs mother nature.
We are in Les Minimes, one of Europe’s largest marinas, if not the largest. It’s huge and the photo above doesn’t even show half of it.
The observant will notice that the top metre of the piles holding
everything together appears to be new.
They are new.
On 28th Feb 2010 a storm devastated the marina, along with many boats still inside. A key cause was that on the storm surge atop a high tide the pontoons overtopped the original piles and they, and anything attached to them went their own way.
This post by Micheal Briant gives plenty of background and photos of the destruction.
