Robert’s Cove in Co. Cork looked particularly spectacular this afternoon when I visited. We arrived to a sudden shower of rain, but it soon stopped, and we wandered up the path alongside the cliff away from the beach. Panoramas really don’t post well online. I need to do something like they do on Instagram where…

The famous diving area in Salthill, Galway, in 2011. This may have been the last time I was in Salthill. We drove through the city in 2018 on the way to Connemara, but I think it’s overdue a visit.

A life buoy at the beach in Youghal. It was a fairly breezy day, just after the triathlon.

Cows on the rocks near the sea on Sheep’s Head. Looks like one of them is enjoying the view of the water. Nice day for fishing ain’t it!

Waves crash off shore at Owenahincha Beach.

Watching the sea roll back and forth off the rugged coast of Sheep’s Head. March 2016.

The sun sets over the Beara Peninsula last weekend. Pictured from Sheep’s Head, about 2km from the tip of the peninsula. Got there just in time to see this!

The setting sun hidden by clouds. In the middle of December last year there was a strong cold wind blowing off the sea making it almost impossible to stand up and take photos!

Achill Island is a beautiful island off the coast of Mayo. There’s a bridge connecting the island to the mainland making it easier to get there which is great because it’s a wonderful place to visit. This is Dugort Beach in the north of the island.

The disappearance of a single solitary dolphin in the year 2020 would seem to be small news among the horrible things that have happened this year. The pandemic is still raging. Ireland is in lockdown again. People are dying from Covid-19. However, on October 20th it was reported that Fungie, a dolphin that first appeared…

January 1st, 2020 in Lanzarote. It seems like a world away. Some knew what was ahead of us in this year but I certainly never suspected what the world would be going through now.

Puerto del Carmen, Lanzarote. January 2019.