It’s been a long time since I had anything to write about. But yesterday we finally managed to get out of Dublin for a trip to the Saltees Island off the coast of Wexford. A great place to go for photographs of birds. in particular, Puffins, Gannets, Guillemots and Razorbills to name a few. So eleven of us headed off to get some photos of the these beautiful birds. Sharon joined us for her first trip to the Saltees having missed out last year. It was not a great day with rain showers always threatening, but they stayed away for a few hours to let us get a few decent shots. We set off from Kilmore Quay at 10.00am and returned at 2.00pm. We had a great day and here is a short video and a few images.
Trip to the Saltees Island
On Wednesday 1st July a few of us from the camera club headed down to the Saltees Island off Wexford. Due to Covid-19 restrictions the 6 of us travelled in 4 cars, and we drove anxiously for 2 and half hours through a fairly consistent rain. But we were rewarded when we arrived with lovely weather. Here are a selection of photographs taken on the day. I have to thank the friends who came a long as I learned a great deal from them. I hope you enjoy.
Saltees
This week our camera club had our annual week-end away and we went to Bunclody. The highlight for many of us was the day trip we took to the Saltees Island a bird sanctuary off the Wexford coastline. As we headed off from Kilmore Quay the weather looked fairly overcast and the thought of 5 hours stranded on the island didn't look too enticing. We were all wrapped up but wondered would the cloud blow away and give us a nice day to take some photographs of the Gannets, Puffins and other wild birds. We trekked off towards the Gannetries and we were not disappointed. The clouds cleared, the sun came out and we had great photographic opportunities. A few lucky people also caught glimpses and a few frames of the odd Puffin or two. By the end of the day we were exhausted but very happy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU1m0jqqOYs
The weekend was a great success we had lovely meals, a great day out and hopefully everyone got some great photographs.
My favourite shot of the day.
Group photo
The group that went to the Saltees, thank you Roisin for the photo.