Plage de Port Lin, Beach in Le Croisic, France

Plage de Port Lin is a sandy beach on the southern side of the Le Croisic peninsula with rock outcrops framing each end. The shoreline curves gently and allows visitors to see the town rising behind the water.

The beach became part of Le Croisic's waterfront as the town grew as a fishing center over the centuries. The arrangement of buildings along the coast reflects this long maritime past.

Port Lin was once called the "baie des bonnes femmes", where sardine boats were beached to unload their catch when the tide kept them out of the harbour. Balzac stayed in the area in the 1830s, and the physicist Henri Becquerel also came, his wife having family ties nearby. The beach's rise followed the opening of the boulevard de l'Océan in 1894.

Port Lin lies on the eastern part of Le Croisic's Côte Sauvage, reached by the boulevard de l'Océan (boulevard Leclerc) cut through in 1894. The sandy cove is bounded east by the pointe du Fort and the Pen Castel manor, on the Batz-sur-Mer boundary, and west by the Jumel bay. Thin dark poles stand upright in the sand near the water.

Before the seaside era, this cove was known as the "baie des bonnes femmes", where sardine boats were beached at low tide to unload their catch when the harbour was inaccessible. The villa Stella Maris, built in 1893 by the Parisian architect Clément Josso, stands among the villas of the wild coast above the beach.