Western delights

[oceanfroggie]

What a balmey weekend on Lough Derg

Visitors from Germany, Tina and Willi arrive 150nm from lower Lough Erne on board charter boat Aughinver Duke II

Power boat racing in Killaloe marshalled by Irish Coast Guard unit

Tina and Willie hit the bright lights of Killaloe

Heading for Mountshannon by dusk

Lough Derg after dawn - Holy Island

View aft to Mountshannon - Summer is here

You have to get up early to catch fish around here

Iniscealtra SC moorings

Peace and tranquility early in the day while pwcs still sleep

Lough Derg - first evidence of sunshine since 1849 survey /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

Holy Island 11th century church ruins

Castlebawn - well worth a visit, has jetty and marked channel

Tina and Willi have found me lurking adrift on the lake

Tina's the driver in this boat

Castle bawn in the distance as the T&W head for scariff

Kindredspirit arrives

Heading for Tuamgraney quay for Lunch in Teach ni Bhriain

Tina on Scarriff river returning after a brief visit to Scarriff

What a glorious weekend - cloudless blue sky, warm sunshine and light variable winds.

 

[photodog]

What was the website on the side of that boat??? ABCBoats.com???

Looks like a great idea for a charter.....

 

[oceanfroggie]

Not sure what their web site is, sounds right but I can't make it out in the pic myself. I know the company is called Aughinver Boat Company and they are based on Lower Lough Erne in NI. Willie and Tina are on a months holiday in Ireland cruising the lower shannon for two weeks with one week each end to get from Fermanagh in NI down to Lough Derg right down south in ROI. The trip from the Erne through the SEW waterway into the might Shannon system is pretty special. Lough Derg is like an inland sea as is Lough Ree and lower Lough Erne.

 

[AndieMac]

Great photos, thanks!