This is a tiny island just south of Ushant, which like some of the other places we have been to this year and last is a fantastic pile of rocks that extends ever further out to sea as the tide retreats. There is a surprising large village on the island, covering about 1/4 of the land area. Once the people survived by crofting, with an emphasis on fishing the rich waters. However today the crop is tourists that the ferry brings 3 times a day from the mainland. The population in winter is 250 but in summer more like 1500. we were the only British boat in the harbour , although we met some very friendly Belgians returning from Portugal.  They told us of their stormy crossing across the Bay of Biscay saying that they wished they had had goggles with them as the spray blowing into their cockpit was whipping their faces and stinging their eyes.

 

At the weekend the anchorage filled up with French yachts one of which anchored dangerously near us and just avoided collision as the wind swung them round.