You climb up via Pinnacle Gully which you can see on the image above. Very Steep and somewhat dangerous.

Tons of these little mushrooms on the way. Anyone knows which this is?

Getting closer to the top … SPOOKY!

First stop and really near to the top. The first climb is the hardest and toughest part. Make sure you have decent footwear. One slip and you are gone. I am not kidding! But it feels so good being up there.

You can see the ocean.

And up the last part through a narrow stone passage way

This was the coolest part of the hike the Pinnacle Gully!

Up on the plateau.

Glencar lake aka Lough an Chairthe is down there.

More plateau .. tons of tiny rivers on the way.

This was nice too. A bucket cable system which got used but coal mines further north.

Pretty steep, he?

What is he doing? NO!

Haven’t seen him, ever since. Crazy Bastard.

This hike is also from this awesome Atlantic Hill Walk Book available at Amazon UK, Amazon US and Amazon Deutschland. It was the Number 8 Hike called : The Glencar Escarpment and took us 4 1/2 hours.

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Full of energy and ready to go.

In the background you can see the mountain rage range- The mountain on the left is in the clouds.

Irish Cotton?

Lough Furnace

Half Way Done!

This was the best part … steep cliffs on both sides and totally in clouds.

Clew bay – Clouds are moving in.

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Music: Brobdingnagian Bards – My Irish Valentine

Welcome to H-Island! This is a secret spot we discovered a while ago. If you are really interested what island it is, feel free to email me. Why am I not publishing the whole name of that place? Well, first of all it is somewhat dangerous (see second last picture – these are actual stairs you have to walk on – one mistake and you are flying) – also it is privat land and you need to ask permission of the farmer to walk over his land. It’s all gated ! And last reason … The seals …. We already feel very bad to scare that seal so badly. In fact it was all fine until I started taking pictures with my medium format camera. Poor seal – it probably thought it was a gun or something.

Back in the days you could make a couple of easy bucks for killing seals and trading in seals heads for 4 pounds each. But still – fishermen are still hating seals. They estimate that every seals eats 1.000 pounds worth of fish. Not sure how they come up with that number … POUNDS! It’s Euros now! …

If you are interested in my Photography: Photo Blog

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My name is Jürgen and I just moved from Berlin to Ireland (well not just I have been here now for over 2 Month and I am still loving it)

Why this blog…?

Well this should be fun little blog about things I think are weird, interesting and helpful information for other movers. So basically just random Ireland related topics.

You will read about my Ireland travels, hikes and hidden – secret spots I find here.

For a living I run couple of web site (with my partner) and do photography as well.

If you have moment check my sites:

Lastminute Auction

Criticker

MrDealio

Random Good Stuff

Jhfoto

Jhfoto Blog

Wedding Photography in Ireland

   

So stick around and feel free to contribute to my blog.

Tags: Ireland, New, Blog, Moving to Ireland, Hello, Failte