Port D’hoëdic

Houat’s little sister knew the same story. Taken by the British, he has a strong property of the Littoral Conservancy. There is much to preserve on this 2.5-kilometer-long island. Dune carnations, water lilies, vestiges of history and memories of island lifestyles. Everything here is as fragile as sand, as exposed as dune and as durable as granite.

The people of the two islands sometimes felt so abandoned by France to govern themselves, from 1815 to 1892, under the authority of rectors (priests) and the rules of the “Carta Hoêdica.” At that time, the port of La Cruz, destroyed by a storm, was rebuilt by the entire population, including women and children. Since 1973, it has been completed with the better-protected Argol port on the northern coast.