The quickest way to travel is to rent a bike. Walking is also an option, but it will be rough going in beach sandals on the rock-filled paths. Picnic provisions are available near the main dock and Plage D'Argent has a beach restaurant. Island restaurants and hotels offer food from humble but tasty cheese sandwiches on French bread to fresh seafood and gourmet meals. But book early because the place is teeming with tourists in late summer.
Seclusion is easy enough to find on the paths crisscrossing the island.
The gathering spots are the cafes around the Place d'Armes near the ferry dock. Porquerolles is only one of the three golden islands, but it's the clear tourist favorite. Levant is occupied by the military and a nudist colony. Port-Cros is France's smallest national park and the hilliest of the three islands. All three are covered in vegetation, pine, eucalyptus, heather, lavender, and rosemary, which drift in the air.