Here, the guardians are the heroes of the daily newspaper. Charged with supervising the herds in semi-freedom, they know each piece of their semi-watery territory. In spring, these riders gather the young animals to mark them with red iron. Each herd has its blazon, which will make or demolish its glore in the arenas, at the season of the races to the cocorde. And all the year, it is necessary to sort the herds and to move them of a grazing ground to another. This work, the occasional riders can take part…
 
Equipped wild between sky and sea.
 
To join the sea, one crosses the Small-Rhone in boat by the vat of the Savage: on board, the horses have priority! Then one crosses through the dunes. Headlight of Gacholle with Holy-Marry, on kilometers, extends an immense, separate beach grounds by a cord of dunes. In these great spaces, happiness is at the end of the support of the horse: to gallop with the short-nap cloth of the waves on fair sand, to go along the dunes where the wind makes shiver sea reeds… A midday, one stops for a barbecue in the shade of the pine forest: with the menu, tapenade, grills with the wood fire and vintage of the country. At the end of the roads of the Camargue, at the end of the delta, the white church of the Holy-Marry-of-the-Sea takes care, heart living of a small very white village. It was strengthened during the One hundred Year old war, to protect it from the incursions of the pirates who devastated Provence by going up the Rhone. In her crypt, rests Sarah, the owner of the gipsies, venerated for her black hair and her darkened skin. This simple maidservant accompanied, says the legend, Marie-Jacobé, sister of the Virgin and Marie-Salome, mother of the Jean apostle, in their escape out of Palestine.
And each year, on May 24, of the thousands of gipsies lead his statue on the beach in procession.
 
Source: Point of view - May 2002 - article of P. Desclos