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The Cliffs of Moher

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I thought I would return to the trip to Ireland (Dublin, Doolin, Galway) John and I took with our friends K and M in October 2022. There were so many wonderful sights (see posts Guest Blog Post: Beasties Return to Ireland!, Guest Blog Post: The Beasties’ Ireland Travelogue (Part I), and Guest Blog Post: The Beasties’ Ireland Travelogue (Part II)) and I haven’t blog much about them.

Also I noticed that only the tierneycreates Beastie guest post blogged about the Ireland trip, I cannot find a post that I wrote (smile and wink).

One of the spectacular places were visited while in Ireland were the Cliffs of Moher which looked like something out of a movie.

Here is a little background on the Cliffs of Moher from the attraction’s website if you are not familiar with them:

At The Cliffs

One of Ireland’s favourite visitor experiences & tourist attractions, the Cliffs of Moher tower over the rugged West County Clare coast.

Visually spectacular, the Cliffs of Moher sit astride the striking landscape of the Burren on one side and the Wild Atlantic Ocean on the other. Rising out of the Atlantic waters to a height of over 700ft at O’Brien’s Tower and running along the coast of Clare for almost 14 kilometres, or 8 miles, the Cliffs of Moher were formed over 320 million years ago, and today form part of the Burren and Cliffs of Moher UNESCO Global Geopark. The Cliffs of Moher is in a Special Protection Area for Birds and Wildlife. The magnificent Cliffs on the Wild Atlantic Way host major colonies of nesting sea birds and are one of the country’s most important bird-breeding sites. Borrow some binoculars from our information desk and do some bird watching. Enjoy the captivating spectacle of the vast array of sea birds, a delightful way to pass the hours.

It was very very very windy on the cliffs and here are John and I braving the wind:

And here are our friends K and M. that we went to Ireland with, battling the wind at the cliffs:

K’s mother was from Ireland and she still has plenty of family there (some of which we met up with in Galway while we were visiting); and her husband M goes to Ireland all the time so they were awesome tour guides.

I took over 100 photos at the cliffs and I am certainly not going to torture you to them all (or clog up my image allotment on WordPress); so I made myself select a couple of my favorites to share with you the beauty of the Cliffs of Moher:

The photos of course do not do the beauty of the Cliffs of Moher justice – I felt like I was on the set of a movie and fully understood why the call Ireland the “Emerald Isle“.

Here is a little video I took:

There were a lot of cattle grazing in the grasslands area of the Cliffs of Moher and one particularly friendly bovine caught my attention and we took a photo together.

Now I am considering becoming vegetarian again, ha!

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