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Wednesday 6 April 2011

MOULIN HUET BAY

The French painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir visited Guernsey in 1883, and while there he became so captivated by the bay at Moulin Huet that he produced a series of paintings of this beauty spot on the Guernsey coast. An example of his work can be seen at the National Gallery. The lovely sand gracing this beach is best enjoyed at low tide when there is more of it to go around. An 1837 issue of “The Guernsey and Jersey Magazine” includes an ode to this place, which begins:

Moulin Huet Vale is dark and steep
Moulin Huet Bay is broad and deep
In crystal blue its waters sleep
And through the glassy tide
The finny tribes of ocean glide
And sea-birds o’er its surface sweep

Map of Guernsey.

File:Moulin Huet Bay, Guernsey - geograph.ci - 112.jpg
Moulin Huet Bay, Guernsey - geograph.ci - 112. Photo by John Rostron, via Wikimedia Commons.


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