HOWTH

It really has been a beautiful week of weather here in Ireland. As often happens, we get great weather when the kids go back to school, after a very wet August. Anyway, yet again today I headed out with my camera and camcorder, this time to Howth, on the northside of Dublin. This is what I came back with:

Howth extends out as a thin isthmus and then widens out and forms the northside of Dublin Bay. On the other side of Howth is Howth village. Its harbour fronts onto the Irish Sea. That is where I spent my day.

Just off the coast is the little island Ireland's Eye:

Walking out along the pier, the tide was crashing in and producing some lovely splashes as it did so. That is Ireland's Eye in the 1st and 4th photos, with a part of Howth itself in the 2nd one:

There were seals swimming around the area, all within easy view. I shot some footage of them and these are a number of stills of one of them:

You can see the footage here: A seal swimming

As I headed over to the other pier, I spotted this bird sitting on a rock having a good preen. This type of bird is called (don't laugh) a Shag:

There is some video footage of it here: Preening

Heading home the bus comes along the Dublin Bay side of Howth and looking across the bay, through the haze I could see the Dublin and Wicklow Mountains. The Great Sugarloaf(right) and Little Sugarloaf(left) can be seen as the two pointed mountains in these, particularly in the 2nd and 3rd photos: