Pond of Saint-Paul
The pond of Saint-Paul is the second greater water level of the island of the Réunion.
It is about an ornithological site important, all the more interesting for the observation which he is located in the vicinity immediate of the downtown area of Saint-Paul, which separates it from the Indian Ocean.
It is also an important historic site because known of the first visitors and inhabitant of the island. It is for example near the latter that of the Bear opponents with the chief of the Malagasy colony were unloaded of Fort-Dauphin Etienne de Flacourt the September 22nd 1654.
It is possible to carry out the turn of the pond to reach a picturesque site called Tour of the Rocks, where one finds today old a Water mill. Strolls is however made increasingly hazardous by the collapse of the banks, signs expansion of the water level.
Another appraisal activity of the tourists is trotts it in the boat in the middle of the watery plants. The mouth of the pond is the only site where the Water skiing is regularly practiced on the island. The persons in charge are sometimes shown to support the erosion banks near the dwellings by creating artificial waves which corrode them.
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