Back on the British Isles

Les Minquiers, a large reef just 18 miles north of Cap Frehal, consists of just a dozen houses on Grande Ile, originally homes for fishermen.

The public toilet is the most southerly in the British Isles, and also doubles as a navigation mark. Careful searching among the rocks will reveal some quite intricate carvings, granite from the reef was quarried here in the early 1800’s and quarrymen seemed to have spent their spare time carving their names