An excellent feature is that moorings are free! There is a trot of buoys mid river for mooring fore and aft so they are very secure once roped on and with good shelter from the steep sided river banks. This is excellent as moorings in Brittany have been expensive, approximately £25 -30 per night for our 13 metre boat. We had 2 very peaceful nights at L'Aber Benoit, no swell and joyous scenery.

In this sunny weather the water is bright torquoise fringed by sparkling white beaches. The rocks here are unlike those further north, such as St. Malo, where oysters and mussels cling; here they are full of abundant and colourful sea weeds harbouring pink shrimp and crab.

 We didn't have the right tackle so didn't catch anything but the locals are really into food for free and wade up to the knees for hours filling their paniers with shrimp. Up the steep hill from the beach is the village store and boulangerie. As with a few other of the smaller local shops in France, the fresh produce has been sparse and disappointing; we think they are suffering from influence of large supermarkets as we do in UK.