After a night on the hook off Ile de Re’ we motored over to Ile de Aix for a short day trip.  On the way, we passed Fort Boyard which was built to protect the French arsenals from Royal Navy incursions.  It only took 56 years to build.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Boyard_(fortification)

We dropped the dingy for the first time and Capt. Glen was kind enough to run us ashore.

Ile de Aix is famous for being the last French soil Napoleon stood on before the English exiled him to St Helena where he eventually died.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%8Ele-d%27Aix

Fort De La Rade fortification

Napoleon did not sleep here.

Fort De La Rade main street. It was very hot this day and we all know Teresa does not like the heat.

A pleasant surprise was a very nice Napoleon museum.

After our Ile de Aix tour and lunch at anchor, we motored back to Ile de Re’ for the evening sunset.  We needed to position ourselves there for the early morning Bassin des Chalutliers’ lock opening.