Oysters and Mussels from the Bassin de Thau

People seem to get into a special mood when they eat oysters, happy, excited, amorous. And if you like oysters this is the place to come. The Bassin de Thau, a vast salt lagoon on which Bouzigues depends for its living, shelters an enormous oyster fishery, with many farms – these cannot be called beds, since the oysters are raised in a different way here. Sticking out of the water, which is freshened twice daily by the Mediterranean, are frames from which hang a variety of ropes, and stuck to these with cement, or twined into them, are the oysters.