The highlight of the day was obviously the Cliffs of Moher. Any cliffs that drop more than 700 feet down into the sea are going to be impressive, but the photographs I took that I like the most aren't even of the cliffs. First though, since it's a bit obligatory, here are the famous cliffs:
The ones I like so much are a bit tricky since I can't do photo editing very easily on the tablet. Hopefully the blog doesn't lower resolution.
Now that probably looks like a somewhat interesting rock, but if you zoom in on it closer:
Even that might be a bit hard to see, but the entire rock is covered with row upon row of puffins and gulls. Part of why I'm a bit proud of this is that nobody else in our group even seemed to notice it. The rock was tucked out of the way so you had to be in one particular corner to even see it, and then those that did must have just taken it for one more rock and never noticed all the tiny dots along it.
Like many of the places of natural beauty in Ireland (and the rest of the world) the Cliffs are becoming pretty commercialized now. One thing that I found a bit interesting is that at the Cliffs they have gone to great lengths to incorporate all the gift shops and restaurants into the surrounding hills so that they blend in instead of overpowering the natural landscape.
2 comments:
The photos you've been posting all look pretty good! Like the one with the birds, and thought whether they were birds or not, until I read your post!!
BTW... those taking the same tours as you are, have you taken note the countries they have originated from? Just curious. Mike
There are only 5 of us doing the 10 day tour, and those 5 are 2 Canadians and 3 Australians. We've spent a couple days here and there with groups doing shorter trips and of the ones I can remember outside of our small group there have been 4 from USA, 1 from England, 6 from Australia, 3 from New Zealand, 1 from Kazhikstan, 2 from Taiwan, 2 from Netherlands, 3 from Canada, 1 from South Africa, 2 from Germany. A lot of them I never found out or don't remember, but that should give a fair cross section.
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