Wordless Wednesday

Jacaranda trees, Malaga, Spain.

Taken on a Mediterranean cruise in the last two weeks, and the reason I haven't been posting.

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Wordless Wednesday - Rosslare, Ireland.

 

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Wordless Wednesday, Valentia Island Ireland.

 On the road from Dingle to Cahersiveen we saw a signpost to Valentia Island and decided to cross the bridge to explore. There was a lot of slate mining done there in the past but it appears deserted now.

I have no idea what the white pentagon is in the photo. It wasn't visible when I took the photo so assume it was a light reflection. At least that is what I hope it was!

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Wordy Wednesday - Camp, Dingle Peninsula.

 Last week I had a couple of comments saying that they didn't know Ireland had hurricanes. They rarely do, but while we were there Hurricane Ophelia was racing across the Atlantic. It was originally losing some power until it went through an area of warmer air and quickly picked up strength again. We knew Ireland was going to take the brunt of it, particularly the area near Cork where we were staying. We were lucky to be staying in a substantial bed and breakfast when it struck. We stood in our bedroom and saw several trees uprooted. Soon the electric went out and the owner told us there were power lines and trees down everywhere. We were due to move on that day but couldn't get out, and of course her new guests couldn't get there, so we were able to stay another night. Thankfully she had a small back up generator so kept us well fed.

Next morning she told us some of the roads had been re-opened but not all. We decided to take a chance and drive on to our next bed and breakfast in the hamlet of Camp. We got there with no major hold ups but saw a lot of destruction of old mature trees on the way.

When we got to our bed and breakfast in Camp, the owner said they had been relatively untouched by the hurricane even though they were probably less than 50 miles away as the crow flies.

The day after the hurricane.

Driftwood washed up onto the beach.

He didn't seem to be bothered by the weather the day before!

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Wordless Wednesday Cahir Ireland.

 

Baylough, a glacier corrie lake

Knockmealdown Mountains. It was very misty but we were told when we got back to the B&B that it was actually a good day and we were lucky to see the mountains. We found out 2 days later how lucky we had been with the weather when hurricane Ophelia struck and caused widespread damage, then followed another 2 days later by a severe storm!

Swans below the mountains.

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Wordless Wednesday - Lough Derg and Killaloe, County Clare, Ireland.

 

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Wordless Wednesday, Adare, Ireland.

 Three views of the village of Adare in County Limerick, Republic of Ireland.

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