Dennis Bakhuis

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🇫🇷 L'Anse au Blé

Giens, Hyères, Var, France

A rocky drop-off with a seagrass flat above it, dived by boat from Giens — and probably spelled "wheat cove" rather than "blue cove".

Dives here
1
Deepest
19.5 m
Water
salt
First · last
2018
Also known as
L'Anse au Bleu

Revision 1 · changed 10 Oct 2026

History
  1. r1 10 Oct 2026 Imported from the personal log · Dennis Bakhuis

Site data © divelog-sites contributors (ODbL), descriptions and maps CC BY-SA 4.0 · 53edcaf

1 map

Posidonia flatPresqu'île de GiensDrop-off, 14 m to about 40 mDive 378: over the seagrass, back along the rocks · 343 mMooring buoy by the cliffRocky slope along the cliff, octopuses↓15 mL'Anse au BléPointe d'Escampobariou, lighthouseN50 m
  • Entry / exit
  • Point of interest
  • Marker
  • Lighthouse / tower
  • Shoreline
  • Dive path
  • Wall / drop-off
  • Reeds / weed
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Site map · 2 objects · 1 path · max 26 m

The west face of the Escampobariou headland at the tip of the Giens peninsula; coastline and lighthouse from OpenStreetMap. The dive-site position (43.031848, 6.096302) and the mooring on a buoy flush with the cliff just before the Pointe d'Escampobariou come from the Var tourist board (Provence Méditerranée) sheet, which also gives the drop-off to about 40 m; the posidonia flat on the shoulder and the rocks come from first-hand observation. The drop-off line, seagrass area and route are schematic; the sea caves the sheet mentions are not placed because their position was not found.

Map © divelog-sites contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0 · 53edcaf

A rocky drop-off running from about 14 m to 26 m, with a Posidonia seagrass flat on the shoulder above it, dived by boat out of Giens.

The log writes it L'Anse au Bleu — blue cove — but the name on the charts is L'Anse au Blé, wheat cove, which is how it is recorded here.

The Posidonia oceanica meadow is worth more than it looks. It is a flowering plant rather than a seaweed, endemic to the Mediterranean, it grows a few centimetres a year, and the mats it builds can be thousands of years old. It is also the nursery for most of what lives on the rock next door.

One dive, 16 July 2018, to 19.5 m. The position used to be Saint-Sardos, inland Occitania.

Dived here with

Kim

Nearby sites

1 dive at L'Anse au Blé

  1. 16 Jul 2018 with Kim boat date16 Jul 2018 depth19.5 m time50 min water22 °C

Sources

  • First-hand observation (Dennis Bakhuis)