A little different from our walk at Doolin last week, we walked to the top of Mullaghmore in the Burren National Park on Wednesday – only 5.5km and 207m high– but a challenging walk in wintry conditions – no t-shirt & shades today – three layers plus waterproofs, boots, walking poles, woolly hats and gloves.
Gale force winds blowing from the Atlantic helped us up the west side of the hill and luckily the rain stayed away. Fabulous views from the top over the rest of the park and the lakes along the road to Gort. However the best part has to be the flowers growing along the sides of the path.
Although it’s only early May, the burren flowers are all beginning to make an appearance and in addition to the spring gentian and early purple orchid, we also saw bloody cranesbill, cowslips, wild anemones, mountain avens, wild strawberries and mossy saxifrage. Amazing to see Arctic and alpine varieties growing at sea level along more temperate plants.
Linda has taken some great photos but our dial-up connection cannot cope with the upload so will have to find another way to get these on the blog.
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I walked on the Burren years ago. It's a bit like a moonscape, except, as you say, if you crouch down you notice the apparently bare rock is teaming with life.
ReplyDeleteDial-up? You really are on the Moon.