Monday May 13

Settling in at Sligo we were for the first time on this trip back on familiar turf. We were here in 2016 and 2017. With the drizzly weather continuing we at least knew where to look for bad weather photographs. This old shipwreck has been in the mouth of the harbor all these years. It doesn't look that much worse than it did seven years ago. 

_8508743 Then we went to check out the waterfall just south of town. It was raining rather hard by then and I didn't get anything I hadn't managed to get on previous trips.

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The rain was supposed to let up in the afternoon so we decided to take a chance and drive over ro Downpatrick Head in County Mayo. It is one of my favorite spots and maybe for the first time we can see it without the wind knocking us down. It worked. The rain lifted and the sea was quite calm, which made for a different kind of image than I'd ever managed to get.

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The turf below looks like it does because it is growing right on bedrock. It is very spongy to walk on.  _8508842  We could feel the trip winding down. Next day was back to Dublin.