Agadir, Taghazout, Essaouira and the south
A bare ring finger after a session at Panorama
Panorama is one of the Taghazout breaks with gentle waves, where beginners learn.
A wedding band lost while surfing at Taghazout can sometimes be found again, and precision decides it: the closer you can get to your exact position at the moment it slipped, the smaller the patch to search. Think about the break you were surfing, the landmark on shore you lined up with each time you sat up, and whether it might have come loose before you paddled out, while you were waxing up.
Ring Seekers is a lost ring and jewellery recovery service that connects people who lost a ring, wedding band, watch, keys or phone in Agadir, Taghazout, Mirleft, Sidi Ifni, Dakhla, Essaouira or Oualidia with a metal detectorist who can search there.
Tell us what happened and where. We find a detectorist who can reach the beach, brief them with your map and photos, and tell you honestly if the odds are poor.
Farther along this Atlantic coast come Agadir's corniche and its beach, Imourane, Banana Beach and Tamraght, Mirleft and Legzira, the centre and port of Sidi Ifni, and Foum El Bouir at Dakhla. Essaouira and Oualidia are here too.
On the beach, straight after
Before walking off, save your location at the exact point where you left the sea. Then photograph the beach so that something which will not move is in the frame: a rock, a café on the corniche, the fishing boats on the quay at Taghazout. Write down the name of the break and how long the session lasted.
A pin is only half of it. Tell us too what you would use to find the spot again yourself: a stretch of the Agadir corniche, the arch at Legzira, a berth in the port at Sidi Ifni, a corner of the medina in Essaouira near the ramparts.
Places we cover in Agadir, Taghazout, Essaouira and the south
- Agadir
- The corniche, Agadir
- The beach along the corniche, Agadir
- The marina, Agadir
- Taghazout
- Taghazout village
- Panorama, Taghazout
- Anchor Point and Madraba beach, Taghazout
- Killer Point, Taghazout
- Tamraght
- Imourane beach
- Banana Beach
- Mirleft
- Ami N'terka beach, Mirleft
- Aftas beach, Mirleft
- Legzira beach
- Sidi Ifni
- The town centre, Sidi Ifni
- The port, Sidi Ifni
- Dakhla town
- Foum El Bouir beach, Dakhla
- Essaouira
- The medina, Essaouira
- Oualidia town
From the bay at Agadir down to Dakhla
Most of these are surf and beach towns.
The corniche and its beach, Agadir
Agadir sits on its bay, with a lot calmer sea than at the surf spots up the coast towards Taghazout. This page covers the sand alongside the corniche, the seafront promenade, so there is a straight line to measure your spot along.
Taghazout village, Panorama and Anchor Point
Once a fishing village, Taghazout has become a resort built around surfing. Narrow lanes run down to a corniche with cafés and surf shops, and a tractor lifts the fishing boats out of the water onto a rocky quay. Beginners learn on the gentle waves at Panorama. Anchor Point, a surf spot surrounded by reef close to Madraba beach, and Killer Point are for experienced surfers.
Imourane, Banana Beach and Tamraght
These beaches lie between Agadir and Taghazout, near enough to spend one afternoon moving between them. A corniche joins Taghazout village to the beach at Imourane. Banana Beach is the other place on this coast with gentle waves for beginners.
Mirleft and Legzira
Mirleft stretches over several beaches, Ami N'terka and Aftas among them, and surfing is one of the water sports there. Legzira, near Sidi Ifni, is where sea and mountain meet. A huge rock shaped like an island rises from the centre of the beach and gives it its name, and the Atlantic has carved an arch and other formations in the rock.
Sidi Ifni, its centre and its port
Sidi Ifni faces the Atlantic. Its centre keeps buildings from the Spanish colonial period, the consulate, the cinema and the town hall among them, which make handy markers when you retrace a walk. The fishing port is a working one, and people go down to watch the boats come back in from the day at sea.
Dakhla and Foum El Bouir
Dakhla sits on an almost-island. Foum El Bouir, on its ocean coast, is the lively beach where surfers, kitesurfers and windsurfers gather.
Essaouira's medina, and Oualidia
In Essaouira, the medina at the centre of town is a tangle of winding alleys, and the houses have white and blue fronts. The ramparts are the easiest landmark to describe a walk by. In Oualidia, the street or square gives us a starting point.
How your surf session turns into a search
A single contact throughout
One person handles your messages from start to close, so the surf session is never explained twice.
Built around the surf session
Your detectorist hears which break it was, your starting point on the sand, the place your bag lay, so the brief is narrower than a whole beach.
Out past the waves
If everything points to deep water beyond where the waves break, that is a long shot, and you would hear that from us first.
Costs in the open
We explain the costs before any search is booked. That conversation happens early, in plain terms.
Flat water in the bay, reef at the points
The sea behaves very differently in Agadir's bay and at the surf spots north of it.
Calmer water in the bay
Swimmers in the bay at Agadir are in a lot calmer water than surfers up the coast. If you lost it swimming, say if you were out of your depth and what on the corniche was straight ahead.
Reef at the points
Anchor Point is surrounded by reef, and Killer Point also draws experienced surfers. Out there, a loss is described by the break, where you sat among the other surfers and the mark on land you kept in view.
Rock and sand at Legzira
At Legzira the big rock sits in the centre of the beach, and the Atlantic has shaped an arch and other formations. Open sand or among the rocks: let us know which, so the detectorist knows where to begin.
Questions about Agadir, Taghazout, Mirleft, Sidi Ifni, Dakhla and Essaouira
Sitting on my board at Anchor Point, waiting for a set, I felt the wedding band go.
Anchor Point is a surf spot surrounded by reef, close to Madraba beach. Your place in the line-up is what matters here: the building or rock on shore you kept in front of you, whether you went out from the sand at Madraba or from somewhere else, and whether it was high or low tide, if you know. If a friend filmed from the beach, that clip often shows your position more reliably than memory does.
Along Agadir's corniche the sand all looks alike. How do I mark where the bracelet went?
Use the corniche as your ruler. Mark the promenade with a pin level with your towel, then estimate how far that was from the waterline, if you swam, and if your things moved during the day. A picture from the promenade looking down at the place helps too.
After an afternoon hopping between Imourane and Banana Beach, my necklace was missing.
Imourane, Banana Beach and the beach at Tamraght are close enough to visit all three in one afternoon. Give us the sequence, with a pin wherever you set your bag down. Banana Beach has gentle waves, so if you swam there, say if the sea reached your knees, your waist or above.
We did Ami N'terka in the morning and Aftas after lunch, and somewhere along the way the watch left my wrist.
Ami N'terka and Aftas are two of the several beaches Mirleft spreads over. Say which one you visited first, and pin both. If you remember checking the time at one beach and not at the next, the search begins in the gap between them.
Somewhere near the arch at Legzira, my Oura ring slipped away.
Legzira has two landmarks nobody misses: the arch, and the huge rock at the centre of the beach that gave the place its name. Say how you stood relative to the two, whether you walked through the arch, and where you came onto the sand from.
At Sidi Ifni's port, watching the fishing boats return, we realised the car keys had gone.
Sidi Ifni's port is a working fishing port, and visitors go there to see the boats return from the day's fishing. Tell us the spot you watched from. Could the keys have fallen into the water between boats, or are they more likely lying on the quay? Describe the key itself, its shape and the car it opens, since that is what the detectorist will be looking for.
I was watching the kitesurfers at Foum El Bouir in Dakhla when I noticed an earring was missing.
Foum El Bouir is Dakhla's lively beach on the ocean coast, where surfers, kitesurfers and windsurfers meet. Let us know if you went out yourself or only watched, and add pins for the car and for the spot you sat. Describe the fastening, stud, hook or hoop, and the metal.
My chain broke somewhere in the medina in Essaouira.
Street names are hard to hold on to in the winding alleys of the medina, so give us your walk as a sequence of stops instead: each shop, café or square where you paused, in order. The ramparts make a good reference too: say if you were walking beside them or deeper in the medina.
Agadir, Taghazout, Essaouira and the south
A place and an item are plenty
No need for the full story yet.
Send a WhatsApp with what is gone and roughly where, however rough: 'Panorama, late afternoon' or 'the medina, near the ramparts' will do. We come back with questions, and the map pin can follow later.