Day 24: Ireland's Big Five

The BIG FIVE of Ireland. It has taken all morning to find Michael and Bernie's herd.......... I have The KEEP in sight and also the sea. Roaring Water Bay is an ever changing kaleidoscope of landscape and color.


Camera man and professional photographer Chris O'Dell captures Roaring Bay as I never could. Check out his work on www.photoimagesireland.comamerman

 Three Shorn Sheep Shearing Grass

We are in farm land deep down on the south coast of Cork almost to Schull and Mizzenhead. Small farms and age old patches of pasture and fields. I am wandering the lanes and cow paths down to the bay looking for Michael and Bernie's cows that have been moved for fresh grass. The only thing I can find at the moment is the rock beach and and old stone landing long unused and covered in mosses    and hedgerows filled with runaway wildflowers.

And then I turn around and there they are, curious as all cows are:

The land is craggy and filled with rocks, bracken, heather and occasional grasses. Hares and rabbits dart about and foxes lie in wait. It took some doing to find a hare willing to pose but there it is. There is even an island named after them in Bantry Bay.. Hare Island,

walk.... and eat. ..     walk and eat..... walk and eat...... walk and eat

Late dinners at 10pm.... Midsummer's Night is June 21st and the days grow longer and longer

It's so hard to sleep when the light is still on......the sun is just setting 11 pm.