Derrigimlagh / Sky Road / Clifden 16.7.2023

The sun was shining, we could see quite far into the distance!

The memorial for Alcock and Brown is up here, but their actual landing site is further down. We decided to have a walk there. Apart from their famous flight, this is also the place where Marconi sent the first successful commercial wireless transmission of Morse code across the Atlantic.

The walk begins at the road and leads into the bog.

The sheep were marked red or red and blue 🙂

Apparently a lot of turf is still cut here.

We read somewhere that champion turf cutters could work so quickly that they kept six sods in the air at once! Incredible!

It was wise to stay on the path!

At one time it started to drizzle, but luckily not for long.

The white stone is where the airplane of Alcock and Brown crash landed.

A lot of energy was needed to send the radio waves across the Atlantic, therefore they built a power station.

The power station and the condenser house were very noisy. A social club was there to give the workers some silence in their free time 🙂

The remains of all the buildings and some of the equipment are still lying around.

The sheep and the birds don’t mind 😉

In Ireland you often see which way the wind normally blows!

After this interesting walk we were hungry. Clifden is not far – we went to the „Upstairs Downstairs“ café for toasties and salad.

How can you possibly drive 80 km/h on this road ?

Since the weather was so nice, we decided to drive the Sky Road.

A local recommended this beautiful beach!

We didn’t go swimming, but we enjoyed just being there.

I don’t pick stones and take them home, but I do notice them 😉

On the way back we stopped at the view point.

We then drove to the next peninsula.

At low tide one can walk (or drive) over to Omey Island.

Impressions from the way back to Clifden.

In Clifden there is a picturesque little stream.

In the evening we enjoyed some live music at Lowry’s 🙂

Lowry’s is a very popular pub, and it’s famous for its Whiskeys and Gins.

We then spent another night at the Alcock and Brown Memorial.

In the distance one can see a bridge, where the changing of the tide is visible extremely well! The photo on the right shows it zoomed in.

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