stay at the "vieux port" campsite and walk over the the dune the left hander breaks on your left and the right breaks on your right as you look out to sea. the right is a longer paddle out but has good barrels on the right tide.
park just outside the viex port campsite and walk through it. this will be about a 5-10 min walk. if your staying in the campsite you can be as close as a minute away from the break. the left is pretty easy to surf, sometimes you can have a nice late drop but weather you do or not it is always followed by a long walling wave which when i was there only sectioned at the end section. the right is about a 5-10 minute paddle out depending on the swell size and what the rip is doing and tides, one day when it was solid 8ft it was a 45 min paddle out but most of that was because of the really bad rip when it is big, but it did break a long way out. the break itself is a really fast barreling wave, you can get some very big makeable barrels. if you go about 200 metres north the bank is really shallow and the barrels are huge, heavey and realy thick lipped and it will always have a late drop beacause the jacks up all of a sudden
Overview
Atmosphere
the atmosphere is cool here and there are no pissed of locals as the beach is kinda private because of the campstite so is mostly visiting surfers here although there are a lot of bodyboarders
General
this spot kicks ass you have a gorgeous left and a fast hollow right
Messanges, France
By herwig, 2009-05-18 18:30:00 Tough Boys
Over night the waveless sea turned into a soupbowl! A warm front passed the coastline and thunderstorms all night long pushed the waves up to a dangerous level. Only 3 locals made the way out but couldn'd catch a wave.
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Messanges, France
By herwig, 2008-06-17 20:30:00 Late takeoff
Along the way from Gironde to Basque County we had a stop at Messanges at high noon. A nice campervan place invited us to stay over night there. Unfortunately there was still only a small swell and too much onshore wind (as alomost during the after More...
Messanges, France
By raidako, 2007-06-09 16:30:00 1èra surf sesh atlantica
Èri pas anat a l'aiga dempuèi 2 meses e lo viatge Japon-Austràlia-Nòva Zelàndia, per consequéncia aquesta session me faguèt un ben enòrme.
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Trip: Tour de France 2009
By herwig, From 2009-05-08 to 2009-05-26
I named our first 2009 trip "Tour de France" according to the roads we drove.
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Trip: Aquitaine-Summer 2008
By herwig, From 2008-06-13 to 2008-07-02
30 years anniversary tour to S/W France!
After 30 years of surfing this is an amazing trip. It all began 1978 in Anglet with bodysurfing and nowadays there's so much memories thruout the years!
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Trip: Las Lanas, Occitània
By raidako, From 2007-06-08 to 2007-06-12
Viatge que qualques jorns dins Las Lanas, primièrament per menar la sòrre veire son amistogal a Dacs. Brave pretèxte per tornar far un bocin al surf. Lo detalh se pòt trobar sus mon blòg http://www.raidako.com
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messanges
Don't go to this place. Too many tourists and a majority of germans ! Now it's not the same and the locals are sick of this infestation !
comment by er tavola - italian bodyboarder-, 2006-08-09 13:58:55
Messanges the last week of july and the first of augst
we had had waves for all 15 days, one day was about 4 metres, then this day the others three with 3-2-1,5. the waves are very good and powerfull, but there are a lot of close out with 4 and 3 metres. the best hours to practice surf are three hours before and after the high tight. good spot, maybe after others surf trip I'll be back here. Bye guys!!!
comment by james vautier, 2006-07-16 20:56:04
Barreled
my name is james vautier and i surfed here when it was 8 ft and i got a stand up barrel and came out with my hands in the air and then my dad surfed plemont and got barreled while doin a hang ten
comment by Anonymous, 2009-06-29 11:33:09