This is a typical house in the marais. This sea marsh has many canals and many of the homes are only reached by crossing the canal in a small boat.
This is a lovely area for a drive. We decided that we would take a boat ride thru the glades for fun. We stopped in a town called Garette and off we went with Vero and me at the helm. Well, it turns out that guiding these wide barges is not the easiest of endeavors. We ricocheted from bank to bank and sometimes turned a full circle. We had great laughs. Then the rain started. We fortunately had taken our raincoats with us as the weather changes literally from minute to minute. So we pulled over under the leaves of the overhanging trees for shelter when the downpours would hit. We would sit and wait it out trying to think of songs to sing in the rain.
What fun for "la fete des poules!"
After our boat ride we went to another town to visit the museum of the marshland. We learned quite a bit about the migration of birds and a lot about the harvest of oysters, salt and eels. It was pretty interesting and we had some English headphones to better understand the explanations! The town was very pretty as well.
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