Exceptionally high "Spring" Tides can make life interesting

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Our plan was to head south over a few days and to pick up Abbi at Pornic - becasue this is easily accessible from the airport at Nantes. However with sailing wetaher and tides always has a part to play. In this case we were experiencing extremely high spring tides. This meant that they go very high (as above) but also very low (next photo). Also meant that the port that we planned to stay at en route to Pornic was not accessible for a boat of our depth. Hmmm... So we had to leave it a few days until the tides had moderated and we were able to get in !

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