Fiadh and me checking that the Cliffs are all still (more or less) in place before the start of the season 🤣 Thank you Ana for the photo.
Cliffs of Moher, County Clare, Ireland.
Tiffany artwork by Nature. The internal structure of this long fossilized Communal Coral (over 300 million years) is on clear display after being worn down by years of Atlantic waves.
County Clare, Ireland.
Atlantic hitchhikers- this colony of Barnacles is attached to a plastic fishbox that they have been using as a mobile home whilst bobbing around the Atlantic. Judging by their size - they've been out there for quite a while before ending up here.
County Clare, Ireland.
I took this inside of St Patrick's Cathedral when I was there, earlier this year. Built between 1220 and 1260, the Cathedral is one of the few buildings left of the medieval city of Dublin. Saint Patrick’s Cathedral began receiving regimental colors in the 1850s, representing Regiments who had fought in the Napoleonic wars. Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, more flags were laid up (added) in the Cathedral; this tradition continues today. When I was there, they said that they leave the flags up until they fall off their poles because “Soldiers do not die, they simply fade away”. That is the reason why they look the way they do.
Fossilized flotation chambers. From the shells of ancient Goniatites that swam in the seas that covered this area over 300 million years ago. Cliffs of Moher, County Clare, Ireland.
A Grey Triggerfish (Balistes carolinens) Regular summer visitors to irish coastal waters they sometimes get caught out by Autumn storms and dropping sea temperatures. Here you can see their distinctive teeth and dorsal spines (trigger). County Clare, Ireland.