Cameret

We had a lovely weekend in Chateaulin - had hoped to hire a couple of bikes to explore the river path but that idea was thwarted by the VE day holiday. Still the sun shone and,because it was so early in the season, we had the pontoon to ourselves pretty much the whole weekend.

We had planned to leave for Cameret on Monday but the forecast said winds of F5-7 so we elected to stay put for another day - that was a good call as the weather closed in during the afternoon and we would have been very wet sailors had we decided to leave. However the Dodo Fleet's Communications Officer (Mr T) provided us with an updated forecast on monday eve and, sure enough, the sun shone on tuesday and we set off for pastures new. We stopped off to have lunch at Port Launay just a little way down river from Chateaulin and transited the river lock at about 2.30, the sun shone and the trip down river was magical. When we got to the Rade de Brest it was blowing quite hard but we found a very quiet little hamlet at L'Auberlac'h and that provided us with a very peaceful night.

We took advantage of the settled weather and headed for Cameret early this morning, having to miss all the high speed ferries as they shuttle backwards and forwards to Brest - I suppose thats their equivalent of rush hour traffic! We plan to head off tomorrow for our next port of call - Morgat - which is further down the Crozon peninsula.