Trou aux Biches Public Beach

What sets it apart

The former aquarium section has been public since 1940, like Blue Bay, Gris Gris, Tamarin and Flic en Flac: these are among the island’s oldest public beaches. 1940, 1984, 1991: read in sequence, the three dates trace half a century of growth of the public domain along this coast.

The mood

The three sections follow one another along the coast and are found by the former aquarium, the police station and the Casuarina. On busy public holidays the beach is covered by the duty ambulance stationed at Mont Choisy, attached to SSRN Hospital.

Highlights

• Three sections, public since 1940, 1984 and 1991
• 4.4 hectares and 988 metres of shoreline in all
• The section facing the former aquarium, public since 1940
• Landmarks: the former aquarium, the police station, the Casuarina
• Covered by the Mont Choisy duty ambulance on busy public holidays

Good to know

• There is not one beach but three sections: “Trou aux Biches beach” may mean any of them, and the police station is the simplest landmark to name.

Getting there

The beach lies on the north-west coast, in the Pamplemousses district, between Pointe aux Piments to the south and Mont Choisy to the north.