Aujourd’hui, on ne croit plus aux fées ni à la vertu mais ce coin du Tarnon en aval du pont de Barre est l’une des baignades les plus prisées des Floracois. Pour y accéder, il suffit de prendre la route de Meyrueis sur sept cents mètres après le rond-point. Le Tarnon est immédiatement accessible à quelques pas de la route. A cette hauteur, la rivière coule entre blocs de schiste et de quartzite rose.

Un seuil artificiel crée une petite cascade apaisante et sépare le Tarnon en deux bassins. En amont, un plan d’eau peu profond avec une belle plage de sable rive droite. En aval, un bassin plus profond et long d’une centaine de mètres.

La végétation est commune, quelques saules rive gauche le long de la route ; buis et châtaigniers sur le talus de la rive droite.

La qualité de l’eau est tout à fait en accord avec la qualité d’ensemble du lieu. Elle est contrôlée par la Division Départementale des Affaires Sanitaires et Sociales.

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LE ROCHERS DES FEES - Tarnonriver close to Florac (the rock of the fairies)      

Why the rock of the fairies? No one can say why. Then I have my little version.
Very long time ago, the lord of Saint-Julien-d'Arpaon had three girls all virtuous.
The youngest, preferred one, Aude exceeded her two sisters in piety and wisdom. While returning from tmass and crossing the bridge of Bar, she was surprised by a lout with unambiguous intentions. To flee, she ran on the bank but preferring death to stain, she jumped in Tarnon. At once, a fairy left the floods and with her magic wand deposited Aude on the opposite bank and the famous rock were the young virgin landed became the "rock of the fairies".

Nowadays nobody believes any more in the fairies nor in virtue but this place downstream from the bridge of Bar is very appreciated by the Floracois.
To reach it, it is enough to take the he roundabout in Florac direction Barre des Cévennes /Meyrueis for seven hundred meters. The Tarnon is immediately accessible to some steps from the road. At this height, the river runs between blocks of schist and pink quarzite.
An artificial threshold creates a small alleviating cascade and separates Tarnon in two basins. Upstream, the water is not deep with a beautiful sand beach at rivets right. Downstream, there is a deeper and longer basin of hundred meters.
The vegetation is common, some willows on th left bank along the road; boxwood and chestnuts on the slope of right bank. The quality of the water is completely in agreement with the quality of the place. It is controlled by the Departmental Division of the Medical and Social Businesses.