Route details
Description
Happy hiking and remember that you are not alone on the trails you are about to travel. We therefore invite you to respect nature: avoid picking flowers and plants, do not leave any trash behind, respect inhabited places, stay on the trails, keep dogs on a leash.
Your itinerary
Step 1: Port of Saint-Georges de Rex
The port of Saint-Georges-de-Rex is the only one not established on the edge of the hillside. The harbor and its access channel (Rimonboeuf channel), entirely dug in the limestone from 1850 to 1870 to approach the dock as close as possible to the village and the town with 150 hectares of marshland, are connected to the Chail canal and the Grande Rigole de La Garette, towards Coulon, Marans or Niort. It is made up of a gently sloping paved slipway, cut stone quays with two access points and a high masonry spillway helping to maintain water in the port. The natural light bulb port is restored as part of the Major Works of the Marais Poitevin.
Step 2: Marshes of Saint-Georges-de-Rex and Amuré
It is a “pocket” of wet marsh on the edge of a limestone plain and bordered by an edge of bocage. It is located in the eastern part of the Marais Poitevin, on its southern edge. Its main axis is made up of the large channel of Port Goron and the channel of Amuré. It is made up of two groups: 125 hectares of bocage marshes to the east and 40 hectares of wooded islets to the west. Its ecosystem is varied: wet meadows, megaphorbias (tall grass in a damp peaty environment) with meadowsweet, sedges (carpets of rough grass) and ash woodlands. It is populated with marsh euphorbia, ophioglossus buttercup, marsh fern; copper from the marshes, rosalie from the Alps; genet and European otter.
Step 3: Picnic area set up
Take a break before heading out again!
Step 4: Rimonboeuf Bridge
The Rimonboeuf Bridge is one of the many bridges in Saint-Georges de Rex. It allows you to cross the Rigole de Rimonboeuf, the main collecting canal for the waters of the St Georges and Amuré marshes. This will be a great time to try to spot kingfishers, coypu, gray herons and moorhens.