Hence the name above. Latest insertion? 2026.
I am pleased to open appendix five by ticking off Portusval, North Finestère — given honorable mention in appendix one and now appreciated in the flesh, as it were, on 22 September 2021.
Naturally, to keep you on your toes, I have slipped in a misnaming here: It is correctly called Pontusval not Portsuval. I contracted some sort of name blindness here so please just go with the flow on this one, will you? It should be Pontusval secured, OK? Thanks.
You’ll find La Teignouse, Morbihan lamented in appendix three as clearly visible from Quiberon but missed by our visit there. Well it isn’t: clearly visible from Q, that it is. On 22 September we had to go quite a way down the Pointe de Conguel to get a sighting and even then the light was wrong to obtain anything but a distant and hazy view of this elusive phare, with benefit of the telephoto. Jean Benoît Héron’s elevation of La Teignouse is the view from the seaward side, a view denied to us poor landlubbers: we had to look over the far end of the point, and over an intervening island, so we were up against it. We did our best.
Finally on this go-getting day (22/09/21), we were able to bag Le Croisic, Loire-Atlantique – an end of jetty feu which gets in under the phare-wire as it had a keeper’s house on shore, and an interior lantern room attached, lantern etc. Mind you, the keeper might have been pushed to get to his charge when the weather was inclement: le Jetée-du-Tréhic is quite a length, somewhat wave washed on occasion even though not in the open sea. Some call the light Tréhic I gather. Héron ignores it.
Le Croisic shows a green light and has associated markers, feus, what have you, to aid the boaters to get themselves safely back to shore of an evening. We walked the jetty to secure our images. This humble light is not to be confused with the wonderful Le Four-de-Croisic of course: this modest edifice has plain masonry, with a green painted lantern but you don’t need a boat to visit Le Croisic, just footwear.
Apologies for mis-spelling Jetée and Tréhic (or missing the accents) on the above post cards. I blame my school. As for the name of that point, well………
You can find another update and addition in the 2021 footnote that I have added to post number 53. If you feel up to it at this time… go on, go on, you know you must… I've given you the link, I've made it easy for you, haven't I?
2022, and another update is added to post number 25, as a footnote: Triagoz, almost seen but only just … don't expect anything very revealing, beyond an apology for that yacht.
2025 update: post number 11 Ver sur Mer:
2026 update: post number 30 Lanvaon & Île Wra'ch, the latter being the new addition. You'll find chapter and verse concerning this heretofore overlooked little phare on the appropriate post 30 of course… On our 2026 progress through Finistère and Côte d'Amor we also took another look at Vierge [28], Le Four [29], Trèzien & Kermorvan [31], Portzic & Petit Minou [39], St Mathieu [40], Toulinguet [43] and Les Pierres Noires [38]: numbers in brackets are the posts that cover these. And we discovered a restricted view of the phare on the Île Tristan (see below).
