15th June in La Turballe (continued)

Well you were going to get a photograph here but I have made and drunk a cup of coffee and it still hasn't downloaded so words will have to do. Forecast was for mist. We could see across to St. Michael's Island and the Marina at Port Louis. However when we reached the outer harbour the fog and I mean fog came down. With a large passenger ferry somewhere hooting in our rear and a large oncoming big ship, which we could only see on AIS, poor Phil was forced to move to the very edge of the channel with hoots all round. We never saw either. Of course he was furiously trying to pick up the buoys as it is a very complicated channel and under instruction a) not to speak to him and b) get up front and do something with the topping lift, I went. As I turned to climb back down on the deck I was confronted by a huge great towering concrete lighthouse lookalike. I shouted its name. You know I was very close because I could see it said Les Trois Pierres. The response came 'I was looking for that'. I decided not to say what I wanted to say, something on the lines of you have ****** well found it but just suggested as politely as I could that if he wanted to get past it he needed a lot of welly or we would be in it. I thought I was remarkably cool in the circumstances but Phil played a blinder in more ways than one getting us out of there. We were in thick fog for the next 23 miles and didn't see another thing until the fog became mist as we passed Belle Isle. We saw a small passenger liner and the 3 masted barque The Belem was anchored. I got photos of her last year whist at sea off Lezardrieux. We saw only 5 boats at sea all day until just outside the harbour here when we saw another two.