Irlande, Valentia Island, Portomagee
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 3.15 mi
- Elevation gain
- 610 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Moderate
- Elevation loss
- 610 ft
- Max elevation
- 780 ft
- TrailRank
- 25
- Min elevation
- 144 ft
- Trail type
- Loop
- Time
- 2 hours 30 minutes
- Coordinates
- 558
- Uploaded
- April 26, 2017
- Recorded
- April 2017
near Clynacartan, Munster (Ireland)
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Itinerary description
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April 14 Valentia Island Portomagee
Finally a day where everything is missed!
First time: goodbye our visits under a blue sky with the most beautiful landscapes of the world. It's raining, trivially, but it's like that. And not just any rain: a drizzle that Brittany would not deny and that soaks to the bone - except that we have good brains!
Then, the winding and narrow paths that we have been fleeing for a few days: they are there and there on Valentia Island. Of course, even on Good Friday you have to meet buses and tractors.
Then my camera that I do not understand anything now. Indeed, the settings had fun playing without me understand why or how. So I come back with overexposed photos and video sequences to turn pale in the true sense. Fortunately, the processing software exists, but I will need a lot of patience.
So a day half-goat half-cabbage we start with the small museum of Portomagee (Skellig experience) where we relax each of 4 € because we are "seniors", but frankly it is not worth a euro. Then hike to the Bray Head, on the cliffs of Valentia Island: no view, nothing but clogged horizons. 6 km, to be savagely saucer without seeing anything. Then we will visit the village at the end of the island: it is Good Friday, so everything is closed. This time fits well with this Catholic commemoration. A little further, by the well-known narrow roads, we will see the fossilized tracks of several hundreds of millions of years ago of the tetrapod of Valentia, an animal life that was probably pressurized by a tectonic movement. May God (the God of Good Friday) have pity on his soul.
Finally, a short tour to Portomagee, Fish & Chips - meal that falls well, see above. And back to our Waterville B & B, muddy and invigorated by the waters of the sky.
Finally a day where everything is missed!
First time: goodbye our visits under a blue sky with the most beautiful landscapes of the world. It's raining, trivially, but it's like that. And not just any rain: a drizzle that Brittany would not deny and that soaks to the bone - except that we have good brains!
Then, the winding and narrow paths that we have been fleeing for a few days: they are there and there on Valentia Island. Of course, even on Good Friday you have to meet buses and tractors.
Then my camera that I do not understand anything now. Indeed, the settings had fun playing without me understand why or how. So I come back with overexposed photos and video sequences to turn pale in the true sense. Fortunately, the processing software exists, but I will need a lot of patience.
So a day half-goat half-cabbage we start with the small museum of Portomagee (Skellig experience) where we relax each of 4 € because we are "seniors", but frankly it is not worth a euro. Then hike to the Bray Head, on the cliffs of Valentia Island: no view, nothing but clogged horizons. 6 km, to be savagely saucer without seeing anything. Then we will visit the village at the end of the island: it is Good Friday, so everything is closed. This time fits well with this Catholic commemoration. A little further, by the well-known narrow roads, we will see the fossilized tracks of several hundreds of millions of years ago of the tetrapod of Valentia, an animal life that was probably pressurized by a tectonic movement. May God (the God of Good Friday) have pity on his soul.
Finally, a short tour to Portomagee, Fish & Chips - meal that falls well, see above. And back to our Waterville B & B, muddy and invigorated by the waters of the sky.
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