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Treac'h ar Goured and Isle
d'Arz
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Easter Sunday passed quickly with Mass, a short walk and a meal
in the town. Monday we intended to leave, but found we were neaped
and could not shift. We just managed to scrape out next day. With
very little wind we mostly motored to anchor off the sandy sweep
of Treac'h ar Goured at the west end of the Isle Houat. It's marked
'anchorage prohibited', on the charts, on account of under-water
cables I believe, but the French, including the douaniers, ignore
this, and indeed it's too fine an anchorage to be lost.
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Nonetheless, it's wide open
to the east, and this was only April, so when a north-west breeze
sprang up in the evening, we took advantage of it to whistle across
the Baie de Quiberon and into the Golfe du Morbihan, where we picked
up a very snug mooring beside the Ile Longue, looking across to the
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Next morning we sailed on up the winding channels
to the Isle d'Arz, where again we found a mooring, and went ashore
to admire the old church and village, enjoying galettes a ble noir
(savoury pancakes) washed down with cider, followed by a gentle
walk by birdy shores, bluebells and old stones. Again next day our
northerly breeze held fair all the way back to the Villaine River,
where Fiona, Fionnuala and Matthew left us to return to Ireland
by road and ferry from Roscoff to Cork.
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