Goémoniers Circuit

Departure and arrival: Port of Porsguen. A car park is available behind the Water Sports Centre.

• From the port, take the GR34 from the east and follow it for 2.2 km. On this section of the GR hiking trail, you will see "Roch Men Goubars", the trembling rock of Plouescat, as well as the "Gored" seaweed oven. Seaweed ovens: paved trench of flat stones where the seaweed was burned to gather the ash to make sodium bicarbonate. The chemical industry extracted sodium bicarbonate in Northern Finistère up until the start of the 18th century and then, in the 19th century, iodine and other derivatives. The activity was abandoned in Brittany at the start of the 1950s.
• Leave the GR34 and make your way towards "Zan" following the PR yellow signposting to "Forban".
• At the crossroads, turn right towards "Pen-Ar-Prat", follow the tarmac road for 350 m and turn right. Continue on the dirt track for 690 m. Between "Forban" and "Pen-Ar-Prat", stop and look at the 16th century wayside cross (4 m).
• After this section of dirt track, take the tarmac road on the left and continue for 190 m to the crossroads and, turn left again to return to the D30 and turn right on to it. Continue towards "Lannerien" take the road to Pratmeur. Follow signs to the Menhir (2.90 m).
• Continue on the path to Kernic Bay via "Rohou- Bras".
• when you arrive in the Bay, take the GR34 westwards to where you started out. In the Bay, you will find a Neolithic covered alleyway, the first signs of human settlement in Plouescat.
• A variant: on the GR34 after Mez Dréan, continue towards Goaz Vihan and then follow signs to Lannerien (5.8 km).