2012-07-20 Arthur's Summer Holiday 2012 - Part 2
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Looking towards the Eccles Hotel. One of the fascinating things about being moored to a buoy is the fact that every time you look out a window the landscape may have changed since the last time you looked out the same window! The gentle swinging of "Arthur" on her mooring was hardly perceptible except when you looked out the window!
Garinish Island with small Ship Island to left.
Paul gives the dinghy a run-out. A dinghy or RIB is an absolute necessity in places like Glengarriff!
Paul give the dinghy a workout!
Ashore for one of our shopping expeditions, Mary takes a moment to relax against a backdrop of Glengarriff Bay..
Paul, enjoying a relaxing moment.
Downtown Glengarriff!
A picture post card shot with Garinish Island in the background
Flying the Cruising Club flag (okay, burgee) in Glengarriff Bay.
Paul with IWAI Cruising Club burgee...
Mary catching up on newspaper reading. Sometimes we might be as much as a week behind with our reading....and with three papers per day that is a helluva lot of reading to catch up on!
Saturday, 28th July, 2012... We used the dinghy to visit Garinish Island. Vist the website for further details
http://www.garnishisland.com/
The Italian Garden.
View from an area close to the Martello Tower.
Mary enjoying the surroundings.
I have created a separate PhotoGallery of our trip to Garinish Island which can be viewed at the following link:
http://www.paulscannell.net/Arthur-The-Photo-Gallery/2012-07-29-Garinish-Island/24973117_wXKcZc
We spent approx. 75 mins on the island and managed to see most of the sections. And there is a small shop and a cafe. Well worth a visit.
The slipway at the entrance to the Garnish Island gardens. Note that the commercial visitor boats use the right-hand side of the slipway. Visitors coming by dinghy/RIB can tie up on the other side of the slipway.
And keep your eyes peeled for the seals that inhabit the local rocks/small islands.
Seal
Planning our return passages! This is a screen-dump from Windfinder with a forecast report for Bantry Bay (although Windguru does cover Bantry Bay its report does NOT include swell/wave data whereas Windfinder does!).
Several points of interest. In contrast with Windguru, Windfinder uses the darker colours to represent the lower wind/gust speeds!
We prefer to travel in low swell and winds/gusts. In this instance we need to be able to benefit from the Monday weather for our long trip to Dingle. And so we must return to Lawrence Cove today (Sunday 29th July). Unfortunately we left it until lunch-time before we departed Glengarriff and consequently we would experience a much choppier passage (Winds @ 18kts / Gust @ 20 kts) than what we enjoyed when we travelled from Lawrence Cove to Glengarriff.
And if we do not manage to take advantage of the excellent weather conditions on Monday for our return to Dingle it looks like we could be waiting a while for another opportunity!
Click the above image to view more clearly.
Sunday, 29th July, 2012...circa 13:45hrs..."Arthur" departs Glengarriff bound for Lawrence Cove Marina from whence she will depart early on Monday morning bound for Dingle,
Seals abound on the rocks just off Ship Island at the entrance to Glengarriff Bay. Locals told us that whereas the seals are familiar with the regular visitor boats they can be disturbed by the sound of an outboard that they do not recognise!
Leaving Glengarriff.
And so we head back to Lawrence Cove Marina.
The passage is 'lumpy'. A couple of video clips that record our passage:
On Bantry Bay (3mins 7secs):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WH2WSzGt3l0
Approaching Bere Haven (2mins 20secs):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq-Rn3d9SLs
Final approach to, and berthing at, Lawrence Cove Marina (2mins 28secs):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0olOJL9-bg