Les Cavaliers Spot Guide

Cavaliers is one of the Cote Basque's premier beachbreaks. Primed to convert any westerly swell, the banks here regularly produce a grinding A-frame with hollow, fast lefts and rights. The quality is probably due to its proximity to the rivermouth and the fact that this stretch of sand, continuing for five kilometers south to VVF Anglet, has been compartmentalized into bite sized beaches, conveniently segmented by sandbar-marshalling breakwaters. Cavaliers sits next to the site of the now defunct wave of La Barre, just to the south of the mouth of the river Adour. One of the first French waves to come to international fame, it was destroyed by the construction of a concrete block jetty.