At low water we just walk ashore from there. It's smooth hard sand bottom. You're dead right about the value of the smile though. Boats have that effect on folk, don't they?
Another pride and joy - off Houat, S Birttany. Lakesailor very kindly straightened the horizon, but I have been too lazy to upload the straight version to photobox.
"I am a citizen of the most beautiful nation on earth. A nation whose laws are harsh yet simple, a nation that never cheats, which is immense and without borders, where life is lived in the present. In this limitless nation, this nation of wind, light, and peace, there is no other ruler besides the sea." Bernard Moitessier.