POTD: Ocean View, Every Room #2
Ocean View, Every Room #2
Downpatrick Head, County Mayo
Ireland
2019
This shot gives a better idea of the overall size of the rookery and cliffs at Downpatrick Head. It also shows (or would if it is viewed larger) that it is a partially integrated neighborhood, with a colony of guillemots living adjacent to the fulmars on the right-hand end of the long shelf in the middle of the photo.
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POTD: Ocean View, Every Room
Ocean View, Every Room
Downpatrick Head, County Mayo
Ireland
2019
There’s not a bad view to be found on this ocean cliff fulmar rookery.
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POTD: Unsafe at Any Speed
Unsafe at Any Speed
Abbeylara, County Longford
Ireland
2019
I read once that castle spiral staircases were always built in a counter-clockwise direction looking down. The reason for this was so that right-handed swordsmen defending from above had more room to draw and swing their swords than swordsmen invading from below (unless of course they were beset with left-handed invaders). This particular set of stairs was in a Cistercian Abbey rather than a castle. I’m not sure how much sword work the monks participated in so tradition more so than defense may have been the reason for these stairs being built that way.
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