Ross & Kilkee, Ireland
Last year, not long after Bo passed away I went to Ireland to visit my mum and get away for a couple of days. She lives in Tipperary, and decided we would visit the West coast for the day.
I had my MP, and a roll of Kodak Gold with me, so what’s what you’re seeing here, and the weather was your typical overcast, threats-of-rain type affair you can expect from Ireland and the British Isles, so nothing we aren’t used to.
Our first destination were the ‘Bridges of Ross’ along the peninsula, in County Clare. There used to be a number of natural land bridges which passed over the water onto the rock formations along the coast, but now due to erosion, only 1 remains.
There was also a heard of dairy cows.
The geology here is pretty fascinating, its formed in what looks like flat sheets stacked on top of each other, and in some locations it even follows curves, somewhat like looking at the side of a magazine laid atop of something.
From Ross, we made our with further north along the coast to to an area called Kilkee. There’s a long, beautiful stretch of Cliffs here, and even on a pretty calm day like today it made an impressive sight.
Where I live in England, in the East Midlands, you have to go on a considerable trip to be able to find anywhere like this, and with it being along the English Channel, it means the ocean is often brown from sediment, and not very photogenic. The West coast of Ireland and the UK, however is much more dramatic, the land is often heavily eroded by the Atlantic into these huge outcropping cliffs, and its something I would love to spend more time exploring, and photographing in the future!
