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Monday, 26 November 2012

Treacherous entrance to St Guénolé harbour

Enjoy more photos from Breton fishing ports around Guilvenec courtesy of the blog,
Derver ar Mor seen here entering St Guénolé which boasts one of the most treacherous entrances to any French port. She fishes for between four and seven days (and restricted from fishing for any longer period) for white fish and langoustines for which St 'Gee' is famous.

What you cannot sea is the fact that the boat is navigating a narrow channel that was blasted out of the reef around 100 years ago - in very foggy weather the bigger St 'Gee' boats are prevented from entering or leaving via this channel as the shallow reef is barely covered by water even at high tide.