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A beaver family has created a small pond along the river. We didn't see any beavers, but traces of their work are clearly visible in the surrounding area.

A beautiful chapel on a lovely estate. Currently undergoing extensive restoration. Unfortunately, it is not open to the public. Legend has it that the chapel was built with perfectly cut stones, without mortar or grout. The crypt is supposedly so rigidly constructed that, despite being below the waterline, it remains bone dry after all this time.

Former quarry now used as a diving center. Magnificent rock visible from the path but the site is only accessible to the diving club

The site, composed of an excavation with extremely eroded slopes, a deep pond and a flat area characterized by an abundance of heather, is in the process of being recolonized by vegetation adapted to this sandy soil, which is very poor in mineral salts. It is therefore home to psammophilous species (which carry out all or part of their life cycle in a sandy substrate): many burrowing insects but also the sand martin. Protected species include the wood turtle dove, the natterjack toad, the smooth snake and the grass snake. Management measures aim to restore the moorland areas, maintain a refuge area for psammophilous insects and restore a cliff that is favorable to the sand martin. The Larbois sandpit, a state-owned nature reserve, is of undeniable aesthetic interest, with its variegated, white, yellow, ochre sands, associated with a few purplish clayey levels. Having sedimented in the Tertiary era in a depression of the Carboniferous limestone, the sands come from the last sea that covered our region around 25 million years ago. They did not transform into sandstone, erosion having dispersed them after the sea retreated. This old sandpit, exploited between 1962 and 1975, is one of the points of interest on the geological trail. Labeling: Site of Great Biological Interest, State-owned nature reserve. Bus 342 Stop: Géromont-centre (2.5 km walk).

Nice walk at the ponds. You will also find benches and picnic tables near the ponds.

Nice walk at the ponds. You will also find benches and picnic tables near the ponds.

Old career with useful meaning. The deep pool is now a unique diving location.

The valley of the Ruiseau de la Tannerie has some beautiful natural ponds with lots of algae growth and fishponds with carp. I also expected beaver dams but I didn't see any.