| Glénan archipelago |
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Glénan archipelago - Une partie de l'archipel
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Glénan archipelago - Voiliers au mouillage
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10 miles off Concarneau, the islands of Glénan are sometimes visible
from the coast. It is an archipelago of eight inhabited islands, of
five other islands and a multitude of small islands, rocks and reefs. |
 Glénan archipelago - Plongée sous marine
sheep island is halfway from the continent. The other islands are
grouped and delimit a sheltered Mountain Lake called "le lagon" (the
lagoon). The purity of water and the low depth (less 2m with low tide)
explain the astonishing luminosity which bathes the archipelago. Mainly
sandy, the islands carry low vegetation made up mainly from tough
grasses and thistles that suffer from the winter winds as well as the
dryness and walkers in summer. Some trees manage to survive on |
 Glénan archipelago - Une flore d'une grande richesse
Nicolas, Drenec and the Log. Obstinate, the Nautical Centre of Glénans
replanted on Penfret a wood already destroyed twice by fire. There is
no fresh water in the archipelago, except from a brackish pond on the
Log and rainwater recovered on the roofs. The drinking water comes from
the continent by boat. In summer, Saint Nicolas, the most attended
island, is connected by high-speed motorboats to Concarneau,
Port-La-Forêt, Beg-Meil and Bénodet. The sun reigns there (more often
than on the coast), beautiful beaches, two small restaurants, a phone
box but neither hotel, nor camp-site. Beware thus: not to miss the
departure of the last motorboat! The other islands are private, but
their beaches and their rocks are accessible with boat. The nautical
centre tolerates the walkers on the islands that it occupies, in the
condition that they remain on the paths. The preservation of fauna and
the flora is at this price. The nautical centre occupies the islands of
Bananec, Drenec, Cigogne and Penfret. At the beautiful season its
sailing ships furrow all day the archipelago. They are not the only
ones on water. Certain summer weekends, they are several hundreds of
boats of all kind and size which undertake the crossing and stopover in
Glénan the time of a bathe, a picnic or one night under the wind of an
island. |
| PS : In winter the islands are returned back to the seagulls and only some fishermen attend the archipelago. |
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