Beautiful County Sligo.

                               Not too many words today, after all 'A Picture Speaks a Thousand Words'.

                                                              We need no excuse to visit Co. Sligo.

In our opinion it is the most beautiful and varied county in the Republic of Ireland .
Our trip today was to meet a fellow chicken fancier. He had contacted me via one of the poultry sites I follow, wanting a La Bresse cockerel and a trio of Buff Orpingtons.
 As he was coming from Derry we offered to meet him at more or less the half way point between his place and ours, which is Sligo. We duly met up and spend a pleasant half an hour talking chickens, goats, pigs and growing veg. It's always nice talking to like minded people, and we are sure our birds, which we hatched in the incubator and watched grow up have gone to a good home.

 Knowing that the tides are once again on the spring and Ireland is under an orange code weather warning we hoped to catch some of the big breakers that we had missed last month.

 The seas were spectacular, we were not disappointed. We also manage to get more seaweed, plenty of  sugar kelp had been washed up, but it looked as though it had been milled,  it was mingled with the bladder wrack which is far lighter than the sugar kelp that we found last time.

Snow trapped in the ravines.

We also got some nice shots of some of the mountains of Sligo, the Dartry mountains, the most famous being Ben Bulben.

The weather was kind to us, little wind, quite warm and sunny. The next front is supposed to hit us in the next day or so.

The tide just staring to come in.

It came in with speed.

Fantastic power.

Waves breaking ,the spray about 50 feet high