Nice flying sky. Waiting for the ferry across Lough Foyle, from Magilligan Point in Northern Ireland to Greencastle in the Republic
Looking across the 12 miles of sea to the Mull of Kintyre, from Fair Head. Nasty tiderace going on there, as the whole Irish Sea wants to be somewhere else
Love the abandon with which lambs sleep. Looks like someone shot him
Looking down on the modern Mulroy Coastguard Station (the olive-green shed right-of-centre). I had a nice tour by the current incumbents.
My Great-Grandfather's daily driver: the very 'rocket cart' they use to fire grappling hooks and lines out to ships in distress (not having any proper boats in…
The old rocket shed, now swamped by a nasty holiday village ("Coastguard Cottages")
Carrigart - Great-Grandma's home town, just off the Mulroy peninsula - bit of a one-horse town these days
Moving on, a quick nip up Errigal mountain, looking out ot Inisbofin .. Isle of the Boffins?
The tide goes out a long way in Donegal - you can just see the breakers at the far end of Maghera bay
Looking across Gweebarra Bay to Glen Head, with the abandoned village of 'Port' in there somewhere, destination for tonight