Left L'Herbaudiere for Pornic on the 4th August. Short motor as no wind to Pornic across the bay. Pornic as a town is very pretty and POSH. The houses and the town were great. The harbour is a bit run down apart from the loos and showers which were brilliant. I think there is some lobbying to renew the port itself. It is high season now and we were expecting some problems but when we arrived at the reception pontoon followed closely by Nick and Rona we were met by a stupid boy who didn't know where to put us. In fact he went to take my lines and then walked away leaving me dangling and Phil reversing to comein againto give me a chance to get off. Nick had the sense to go on to the first hammer head. Phil was marched to the Capitainerie to be met by a shoulder shrugging young lady who obviously wanted lunch and didn't speak English or Phil's style of French. This took ages. When Phil came back we decided to raft next to Nick. We knew bad weather was coming so put out lots of lines. However at this point it was a wonderful afternoon. Hot and sunny but....the town was having a carnival on the Saturday. They plan it from November onwards. They burn the king in the river and have a huge fire work display at 11pm. In the afternoon are floats etc for the children. We woke up to rain. Torrential rain which continued all day until 8.00 pm. When it stopped. We all went in to town and enjoyed the king burning and the fireworks which were on the walkway under the castle and magnificent . We felt really sorry for the towns people as the rest of the day had been a wash out.
Sunday we went to market. Had a coffee and walked back and it began to rain again and didn't stop.Then the wind blew and blew. Waves came over the back wall of the marina and the noise was horrendous. Phil and Nick doubled their lines during a brief pause and we filled up with water as we were very low and I felt we wouldn't get another chance for two days. I was right.Two nights and two days. it was so loud I slept with a pillow over my head as well as under!!! Phil thought I looked hilarious but it worked.
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| The Castle and the drying harbour |
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| Fireworks. Wrong camera. |
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| The wall |
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| Small cove |
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| Beach |
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| The fishing fleet |
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| No entry at low tide |
Eventually it calmed down and we were able to explore and see what we had missed. Some beautiful coves and beaches. Calling in to the Capitaierie we met the 'A' team who spoke English and knew what they were doing. We also found the end of the marina where the big boats go. And will take ourselves straight there next time. The pilot seems to be totally wrong on this one.
And then we left on Tuesday for Piriac Sur mer.
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