Sunny Liquid Dreams

June 25, 2009

I felt guilty that I was wasting perfectly good, sunny evenings, so I planned to go to Howth Head with one of my housemates. Thursday had promised clear skies, so we hopped on the DART (the coastal rail line) and headed up to Howth Beach.

Our luck held because the weather was good (still a bit windy from the sea breeze), but otherwise perfect.

The first view of the beach. The tides were so low that even the Irish Sea is not even visible in this picture. We had to walk quite a distance to reach the water.

The Irish Sea. Well, at least part of it. This is actually looking back towards the beach.

This isn't water, but sand. The receding waves left different patterns all over the beach.

Waves as they rolled into the beach.

The view from the beach. The island in the distance is called Island's Eye. I don't know if you can get a boat out to reach it, but it looked cool from land.

A picture of my housemate, Amanda. I took this shot without her knowing, but I liked the lighting in this photo.

A shipwreck on the beach. I don't know which ship this is, or when the wreck happened, but I believe that this is usually partially submerged, so we were lucky that the tides were low.

This is a picture of some random plant that washed up on the beach. However, the green was so vivid, that I had to take a picture. Of course, on the Emerald Isle, I've seen this green many times before. But this was the first time that I actually got to take a picture of it. The strands also look so fine, that it looked a bit like hair.

One of two ships being built in the shipyard. I think one of the locals was laughing at us when we took pictures of this. But thing like this are so novel, especially to people who live inland, that pictures are a necessity.

A small boat entering the harbour. The weather was so lovely that we saw quite a few boats out at sea.

We didn't know if we had enough energy to wait for a sunset, but this was one of the first pictures we got of it. The sunset is ridiculously late here - around 9:30.

A picture of two small kids as they walked to one of the boats. I wish that I had taken the picture horizontally, instead of vertically, but I still got a good picture.

A later shot of the sunset. It was quite calm and there were many people walking up and down towards the lighthouse. 

The walkway the leads up to the lighthouse and a watchtower (?).

Something (some form of moss?) growing on the rocks that lined the beach. The colour reminded me of turmeric powder and it looked like some took a huge spoon and sprinkled it all over the rocks.