Dzogchen Beara Sunrise
Sep27

Dzogchen Beara Sunrise

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Dzogchen Beara is a Tibetan Buddhist Retreat Centre located on the Western tip of the Beara Peninsula in West Cork. I took these photographs early one morning in 2006, while Jason was attending a retreat. The place is breathtakingly beautiful (as is every nook and cranny of West Cork) and very, very peaceful. We went back down for a week in 2010 and picked out several houses and locations that would be ours when we win the lotto. In lieu of that big lotto win we’ll just have to visit on a more regular basis. We’re bombarded with misery here in Ireland on the radio, on the television and in the papers, it’s nice to know peaceful places...

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Dursey Island Cable Car
Mar02

Dursey Island Cable ...

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The cable car connects Dursey Island to mainland Ireland. As well as carrying people, it also takes livestock across the 200m stretch of Atlantic. The cable car in these pictures is the new one which replaced the previous “biscuit tin” last year. It is amazingly quiet. When it was...

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Nice Day For Boating
Feb26

Nice Day For Boating

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Hard to believe this is Ireland in February. This was taken at an inlet in Glengariff, West Cork on the most still seawater I’ve ever...

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This Is Our Beach
Feb23

This Is Our Beach

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Beach near Crookhaven on the Mizen Head Pennisula in West Cork.

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Looking Back At Castletownbere
Feb21

Looking Back At Cast...

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Took this pretty early in the morning. It’s the view from one of the mountains back down onto the town of Castletownbere in West Cork. It was freezing cold with a bit of a mist and a light dusting of snow on the mountain to the...

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