La Baie de Bourgneuf

The island of Noirmoutier is visible in the background of this photo. I was on the mainland looking west across the bay of Bourgneuf. The tide was out and the mud flats were exposed. The southern tip of the island is connected to the mainland by a high-rise bridge (since 1971), but there's another way to cross the bay. Stay tuned.

A couple of skiffs on the mud flats in the Baie de Bourgneuf. Digitized color slide, January, 1992.

I was awakened by thunder during the night, around 01h30. I could tell the storm was coming up from the south as they usually do. There was a good deal of lightning and the thunder was continuous as it got closer and louder. Then it started raining, but not nearly as hard as the other night. We were lucky that the storm just grazed us to the east as it went by. Storms at night make me jumpy. After about an hour, all was calm again, but I didn't sleep much.

It's the unusually warm and humid weather we're having this week that's fueling these storms. They don't seem to bring much wind, but we're getting a lot of (much needed) rain. The hard rain the other night carved deep gullies in the dirt road out through the vineyards. The air is buzzing with annoying gnats and other bugs. Dare I say it? We need a cold snap!