The Climate Change Debate Thread (Second Thread)

[MauriceColgan]

This view of Dublin Bay is one of our favourites, yet rarely, if ever, seen on postcards?

There are a great many very beautiful coastal and inland areas of Ireland completely under exposed and therefore unfrequented by tourists, native and otherwise.

Have you a photo of scenic Ireland off the beaten track that would turn this thread into a resource for foreigners and curious Irish people? Potential tourists.

 

[bokuden]

Ireland is a stunningly beautiful country. I think you need to leave the place for a few years to appreciate how lovely it is.

 

[MauriceColgan]

Another favourite location off the beaten track Horn Head Donegal. Spectacular views on a sunny day.

 

[Wakeupcall]

DOnegal, Slieve League Highest sea cliffs in Europe.

slieve league - Google Search

 

[MauriceColgan]

We had to get out of the car and push my mother's mini up to see the wondeful view.

Valencia Island Kerry. Was first there 1971ish.

 

[MauriceColgan]

Achill Island County Mayo from top of a mountain, you can drive up.

 

[MauriceColgan]

Wicklow Way featured on Country File BBC1 TV now.

Our visitors from Florida this year were amazed by the abundance of yellow furze all over County Wicklow.

 

[Telemachus]

Today I saw something beautiful, I was driving into dublin from the west, the Sun was setting behind me, a beautiful orange ball surrounded by heavenly clouds and ahead of me was clouds lit up in grey and blue, and rising from them was a full Moon. When you see the moon when it is low on the horizon it appears twice as large due to optical effects.

 

[MauriceColgan]

Telemachus, Thank you, that reminds me of an evening on the road to Sleigh Head in Kerry.
It had been overcast all day with low grey cloud. Then far of on the Atlantic ocean horizon the sun began to emerge low in the sky and slowly but surely it's light bearing a purple hue, crept across the calm water just like a searchlight as it headed towards the shore.
Cars were stopping all along the coastal road and the occupants camera laden were getting out and standing in awe at the unfolding scene. One of those magic moments etched in our memories.

 

[MauriceColgan]

Sleigh Head county Kerry.

Where the movie Ryan's Daughter, starring Robert Mitchum, was filmed.

 

[MauriceColgan]

We cannot live on politics alone.

Stayed at the foot of Mt Errigal in Donegal a few times. A lovely location. EnyaLand.

 

[MauriceColgan]

Mizen head county Cork
Saw a lizard there to the left of the white bridge... near the lighthouse.

 

[Telemachus]

Telemachus, Thank you, that reminds me of an evening on the road to Sleigh Head in Kerry.
It had been overcast all day with low grey cloud. Then far of on the Atlantic ocean horizon the sun began to emerge low in the sky and slowly but surely it's light bearing a purple hue, crept across the calm water just like a searchlight as it headed towards the shore.
Cars were stopping all along the coastal road and the occupants camera laden were getting out and standing in awe at the unfolding scene. One of those magic moments etched in our memories.

Nevermind sunsets in the pacific islands, the sunsets here are better then those places. There is a great beauty here.

 

[tellis1]

We had to get out of the car and push my mother's mini up to see the wondeful view.

Valencia Island Kerry. Was first there 1971ish.

I didnt think many women wore mini's in the 1970's..................

 

[MauriceColgan]

Nevermind sunsets in the pacific islands, the sunsets here are better then those places. There is a great beauty here.

Yes we get great sunsets. The song Galway Bay, made them famous.

Telli1,

Mini skirts were out in circa 1963. In some small towns women were still wearing them in the 1970s,80s,90s.......

 

[MauriceColgan]

Malin Head County Donegal.

A lovely place in good weather. We were their in a gale!

 

[Libero]

It's still possible to buy the boardgame of the same name!

 

[Green eyed monster]

We cannot live on politics alone.

Stayed at the foot of Mt Errigal in Donegal a few times. A lovely location. EnyaLand.

Impressive, looks almost like K2 (apart from being a real life midgety mountain in comparison). Was not expecting to see a photo of an Irish mountain so steep and heavily snowed over like that.

 

[MauriceColgan]

Impressive, looks almost like K2 (apart from being a real life midgety mountain in comparison). Was not expecting to see a photo of an Irish mountain so steep and heavily snowed over like that.

Thranduil, it's not snow. it's the bare rock. The mountain is impressive from all directions.
If you search images of Mt Errigal you will see for yourself how bare it is.

 

[odie1kanobe]

Between one Christmas and New Year was down in Kerry and it snowed!

Doing the road from Sneem to Killarney was absolutely gorgeous, I never had a camera but probably just as well as could never had done it justice.