Saturday 27th November 2021
Today we headed east stopping to visit Connemara National Park Visitor Centre.
The National Park is quite small by National Park standards but there is some spectacular scenery here.
The Visitor Centre is by a small lake.
It's a really beautiful setting.
The only bit of Irish Language I could find was on the front of the Centre itself. Everything else was in English!
The display inside the Centre is very informative. This area was covered in pine forests but then humans moved in and either burned down or cut down the forest. This human induced environmental change led to the formation of peat bogs. As time went by wood for house building etc became scarce and the people resorted to digging logs out of the bogs, the logs having been preserved by the chemical environment beneath the surface of the bog.
There is a good range of wildlife living in the park. Red Deer had become extinct here but they were recently reintroduced here from another part Of Ireland.
It's a nice place to visit. There are some waymarked walking trails here but the wind was bitterly cold so we decided against taking a walk.
We continued to travel east through some really spectacular mountain scenery.
There was a sprinkling of snow on some of the mountains.
Eventually the land became flatter after we had passed through Westport. We travelled east on the main N4 road stopping for a cup of tea in this rather insalubrious pub car park.
We stopped for the day at the village of Rooskey. We are at an aire here. This is the view from the front of our van.
We are beside the River Shannon.
It costs 16 euros a night to stay here which includes electricity and water. We haven't bothered to connect to the electricity as with our large leisure battery and solar panel we seldom run short even if we spend a lot of time watching TV.
As the daylight faded there were some beautiful reflections in the river.
It's getting dark now.
Today we travelled 124 miles (200 kilometres). We are at: N53.8314 W7.9196
The National Park is quite small by National Park standards but there is some spectacular scenery here.
The Visitor Centre is by a small lake.
The only bit of Irish Language I could find was on the front of the Centre itself. Everything else was in English!
The display inside the Centre is very informative. This area was covered in pine forests but then humans moved in and either burned down or cut down the forest. This human induced environmental change led to the formation of peat bogs. As time went by wood for house building etc became scarce and the people resorted to digging logs out of the bogs, the logs having been preserved by the chemical environment beneath the surface of the bog.
There is a good range of wildlife living in the park. Red Deer had become extinct here but they were recently reintroduced here from another part Of Ireland.
It's a nice place to visit. There are some waymarked walking trails here but the wind was bitterly cold so we decided against taking a walk.
We continued to travel east through some really spectacular mountain scenery.
Eventually the land became flatter after we had passed through Westport. We travelled east on the main N4 road stopping for a cup of tea in this rather insalubrious pub car park.
We stopped for the day at the village of Rooskey. We are at an aire here. This is the view from the front of our van.
We are beside the River Shannon.
It costs 16 euros a night to stay here which includes electricity and water. We haven't bothered to connect to the electricity as with our large leisure battery and solar panel we seldom run short even if we spend a lot of time watching TV.
As the daylight faded there were some beautiful reflections in the river.
It's getting dark now.
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