Looking towards Ile Cigogne
A couple of days of sunny and calm weather were forecast so we planned to go to the Iles de Glenan, an archipelago of small islands South of Concarneau. We had liaised with Mike and Carol on Falken to meet up for a beach barbeque. Before leaving Loctudy Jean-Marc, a fellow Moody owner we met, very kindly ran us to the supermarket in Pont L'Abbe, so we were able to stock up before leaving for the Isles.
We slipped our mooring at three in the afternoon in bright sunshine and after motoring out of Loctudy found ourselves in an unofficial race with a similar sized French yacht towards the islands. We tacked a couple of times to get round cardinal markers and were easing ahead of him, only to lose out on our last tack when he went inside the rocks we tacked to avoid.
We carefully picked our way into La Chambre between Ile Cigogne and Ile de St Nicolas, the latter being one of the larger islands that the trip boats come out to. Having carefully studied the tidal predictions we found a mooring buoy with enough depth and settled down for the evening. Mike and Carol came over in their dinghy for a pre dinner drink.
Next day we dinghied ashore and went for a walk around Ile de St Nicolas. The island is joined by a sand spit below high water to Ile de Bannec which makes a beautiful sandy beach.
We discovered a bar and a small restaurant so had a drink before getting in the dinghies again and going across to Ile Cigogne, which is dominated by a fort. Unfortunately we couldn't go in the fort as building work was going on.
That evening we met up for the planned beach barbeque. We cooked up some garlic prawns as a starter followed by chicken kebabs and salad. It was a fantastic setting and delicious food.
We were going to move to another island and stay a third night, but the promise of a decent shower and the need to give the boat and barbeque a good clean made our minds up to head to Concarneau the next day.
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