Le Bateguier

Sitting off the western tip of Ile Sainte-Marguerite, the tombant is sheltered from the east through south by the island and the wider Lerins archipelago, which block the SE-S Scirocco almost completely, while the mainland Cannes coast dampens the northern sectors. Its open-water faces look west and southwest into the Golfe de la Napoule, where wind-wave from the SW Libeccio builds quickest; the NW Mistral arrives across the gulf only partly broken by the coast. Being microtidal, conditions here are driven almost entirely by wind rather than swell or tide.