Friday 20 June 2014

The 6 day trip to Ireland - County Clare (Day 3 - morning), Cliffs of Moher - The 12th of June 2014


We had booked a tour to the Cliffs of Moher and had to catch the tour bus at the Townhouse Guesthouse just a few metres down the road from where we were staying, which was very convenient because we still had time to get breakfast before leaving at 7 o'clock.


I had no idea we would be stopping at the Barak Obama Plaza in Moneygall, which is where the President' roots are, once he is the great-great grandson of a certain Falmouth Kearney's youngest daughter, which takes one back into 1850 when this 19 year old son of a local shoe-maker left Moneygall to begin a new life in the USA.




















Wherever we looked there were huge patches of pasture land and by the time we approached the County Clare I had nothing but green embedded in me. Kearan, our guide called our attention to the difficulty of turning into of some of the narrow inner village roads, some of which had still visible marks attesting what he had just said.


































The Cliffs of Moher are said to be one of Ireland's top visitor's attractions apart from having been designated UNESCO Geopark.The origins of the rocks that form the Cliffs date back over three hundred million years to the Upper Carboniferous Period. Some of the coastal views  were spectacular though I didn't risk getting too close, once the Cliffs are 214m high. Ranging for ten kilometres over the Atlantic Ocean the Cliffs are home to one of the major colonies of cliff nesting sea-birds in Ireland.

We took the right stepped path under the suggestion of the guide because despite having around one hour and an half to visit the site, we wouldn't have time to go to both sides and this particular path would allow us to access the Cornellius O'Brien's Tower and sight the Giant Sea Stack.









































To say we were not impressed would be a lie and notwithstanding the fact that we didn't take advantage of the Visitor centre's exhibit included in the tour we did enjoy the outside "experience" which even took us into some back farms where numerous cows and sheep were grazing ...















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