A Summer Sunrise at Seahill (video).

Well, I havent been here for such a long time, almost a year in fact, so I thought Id put up a small video I made of very close to where I live. It was filmed early one Summers morning a few weeks ago, on the shores of Belfast Lough, at Seahill County Down. Its not a part of the lough shore that a lot of people flock to (its neighbours Helens Bay and Crawfordsburn get all the crowds) but its a peaceful area that the locals really enjoy (theres also some great blackberry picking at this time of year). The music here is by Ceeys and the track is called Hiddensee.

 

 

Random Stuff! Here & There.

This is just a few pictures I had lying around on my computer that Ive taken over the last year or two. I didnt have enough of each location for a full post (on the place) so Im just gonna dump them individually here. All pics are of course coming from Northern Ireland and as ever, are taken with a compact camera only 🙂

 

Early morning spiders, taken at Murlough Bay, near Newcastle Co.Down, a few weeks ago.

Tranquility at Seahill. Only about 15mins walk from the beach at Helens Bay, but things are much quieter here and actually rather nice.

 

Just a tree and high flying birds on a grey morning. Taken around about Craigavad (between Seahill and Cultra) County Down.

 

Big Dipper reflections…

 

There are many dolmen (portal tombs) scattered around Northern Ireland, and several seem to be on farmers land. This is “Wateresk” which is right in the middle of a farmers field between Dundrum and Newcastle.

A snail. Outside my house. Outside his house.

Helens Bay, Co.Down 10th January 2016

I haven’t posted anything in a while with a few personal things going on, but new year brings new intentions to get things going again, and as ever, the idea is to show just what Northern Ireland has to offer beyond its troubles of the past and its big ship that sunk in the night. There’s much more to our tiny country than those black taxis around tainted murals, or even the wonderful Giants Causeway. Have a look and see what has lay hidden for decades from most travellers eyes, and where most sights are never more than 120mins apart.

All photos were taken with only my Sony compact camera, so my pictures actually are of what you will see (no hyper-realistic SLR pix here as I prefer to show reality). Heres to a great new year of 2016 and I hope it brings each and every one of you much happiness 😀

 

 

HELENS BAY – SEAHILL Coastal path, on the evening of January 10th 2016

 

The weather in the north of Ireland (in fact all of the UK and Ireland) has been the wettest ever on record this winter, so we’ve barely seen the sun in weeks. Last night however there was a little glimmer of gold as the day began to fade so we went out for a walk along the shores of Belfast Lough and grabbed a few pics.

 

 

You cant really see it here, but this is looking across the lough towards Carrickfergus from Helens Bay

 

A rocky beach between Helens Bay and Seahill

 

You might just be able to see a little bench to sit on to the left here, but we decided not to given it was very, very cold!

 

After all that rain, much of the path was muddy and puddled, but it made a nice feature in this picture.

 

Daylight almost gone now, the last embers of light fading into a January night.