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Spring Cruise 2001 on Anna M

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Treac'h ar Goured and Isle d'Arz

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.

"Skipper"
Ile d'Arz
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 neolithic (around 3,000 BC) tumulus on Gravinis.
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.
Old stones - Isle d'Arz
Bluebells - Isle d'Arz

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