Puffins,Islands and Guinness

Hi Levsha… I didnt do too well myself 😀
First visit to Ireland at the age of 57 :rolleyes:
South west of Tralee is just spectacular,I would imagine much of the west coast is very pretty.

rgds baz

Gee bazv, you’re going to see more of Ireland than most Irishman ever do – I didn’t get to travel ‘West of the Shannon’ till I was thirty years old myself!:o

Thanks for the kind comments guys…I will be going back,that was just a small window of opportunity at the end of 2 weeks hols.
Some of my friends have said I was lucky with the weather,but in truth I was lucky with the forecasting,same as my hebridean trips – I wont even think about going unless the forecast is reasonable.
The puffins were actually the final decider to go,I missed them on Staffa (fingals cave) -they are really cute little things 🙂

rgds baz

Thanks for those

I don’r ever recall seeing a set of pics of the area from the ground up so to speak……just ordinary daily life captured on film:)

Nice pic’s Baz.

Looks like a wonderful trip………..

Planemike

Just a couple of phone pics I took

The skellig flotilla tied up at portmagee

Near my B and B

Thanks Steve – sorry forgot to return to this thread,I can see why you think they are related to penguins…but it appears they are more akin to Auks.
I have a few more pics from my camera phone,just got hold of a usb lead for it so will post them later 🙂

What a great pictorial Baz..looks a fascinating place that probably hasn’t been ruined by the ubiquitous tourist yet..that Puffin is a beautiful little creature ..obviously related to the Penguin family by the look of it

I forgot one of my favourite pics 🙂
Little Skellig viewed from the (later) St Augustine chapel

Thanks Sy…I had never been to Ireland before either,for many years (whilst in the RAF) I was simply not allowed to go there,it is really lovely on the west coast and I have done the scottish western isles quite extensively in the last few years.
They do not seem to get many brits visiting portmagee/skelligs,whilst I was there it was a mixture of Canadian/American/German/Belgique with a couple of N Irish/almost N irish!

rgds baz

Excellent pictorial, thanks for posting. I’ve never made it across the sea to Ireland and missed many an easy opportunity when I lived in the UK, so will have to make a special trip back to go one day.

A happy baz leaving skellig 😀

Little Skellig is home for approx 46000 breeding gannets – as you approach the sight (and smell :rolleyes:) is amazing

1 Gannet soaring our boats bow wave

And of course…the reason for going there in june…
The lovely,cute little Puffins

I sat on the steepest steps for 30 mins to get these pics,I only have a small compact digi so had to let them come in close 😀

I originally planned to stay at a B+B right on a beach but then sanity prevailed and I stayed in one within walking distance of the Bridge Bar in Portmagee 😀
I knew either the friday or saturday might be the best day to go – in the end I booked both days 😀 they though I was mad…but as it turned out saturday was a cracker !!:)

The Skellig flotilla sets out,the other casey boat following us

Little Skellig from the monastery

Happy fellow pilgrim 🙂

At about 200ft,beautiful bird 🙂

Some of the ‘Tousands’ of Puffins on skellig

Up to the top and part of the old Monastery,the island is a UNESCO world heritage site 🙂

Friday morning – down to Portmagee harbour to go with Patrick Casey in the ‘Ken B’ out to Skellig Michael Island,which rises to 700 ft some 8 miles out from portmagee.

Patrick seemed to be the only skipper to go out through the narrow cut from the estuary 😀

It was a wild ride out to skellig 😀 – target in sight