Island in the Saone

We had thoroughly enjoyed the privacy and tranquility of anchoring on the Saone and decided that we would do more of the same en route back to our permanent mooring at Saint Jean de Losne.
Set off from Chalons on yet another perfect sun filled day and motored off into an infinite avenue of green and blue.
Passing through Gergy we searched the riverbanks and skies for the resident colony of bee eater birds and got cameras at the ready...

and were lucky to capture this beauty.

Then motored on and found a secluded bay where we dropped anchor once again. The engine was barely stopped before the boys had jumped off the deck and into the water.

Olympic divers at the ready

The afternoon was so perfect for all of us that we decided to stay put for the night. Set up camp on deck and slept under the stars and woke up early in a magical misty world through which the commercial barges creep.

It was so good that we decided to stay another day, another night and finally tore ourselves away at midday on the third day.