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Yes, we’ve shown you this lighthouse in an earlier post :-). It’s St John’s Point Lighthouse, situated at the end of a long finger of a peninsula which drops south of the main arm of a wider and bigger peninsula which forms the north shore of a bay at the base of which sits the city of Donegal, aka Dún na nGall in Irish. To the south across the water from St John’s Point sits Mullaghmore, in County Sligo, and at the west end of the main stem of this particular part of Donegal rise the cliffs of Sliabh Liag. whose rainbow laden photos saw out 2023 on our blog.
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This weekend (with the shortest weekend days of the year for those of us here in the northern hemisphere – days also when many of my family and friends around the world are likely to be gathering in homes far and wide to enjoy each other’s company) seems a good moment to share my last coastal photos from that lovely August high-summer week in Provincetown, just before I hopped over to Star for the meditation week. Experienced readers will know already that the photos and gallery in this post will be viewed much better on a large screen. 😊
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As you’ll have deduced, I recently spent several days exploring a few corners of Ireland, which certainly lives up to its “Emerald Isle” handle based on what I’ve seen so far. This means my over-abundance of photos to share with you has grown more, so I’ve decided I need to post more of the shots left from that glorious late-summer week on Star Island nearly three months ago. For this post, I hope / think I’ve managed to include all the shots which include the island with the lighthouse, which the map tells me is White Island State Historic Site.
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Above and below the photos taken from the ferry that took me from Boston over to Provincetown in mid-August, already nearly three months ago and on a much warmer, sunnier day than any I’ve experienced here in northern Europe recently :-). Since it was my very first time back in P’town in a close to a decade, this approach to the dock felt special for me.
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Traveling from Portsmouth, NH over to Star Island involves exiting along the Piscataqua River & Bay out to the open ocean, past one of the cooler pulley-elevating bridges I’ve seen as well as two different lighthouses. (The bridge we’ve shown you a few times in previous posts.)
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Who doesn’t love a lighthouse? As I might have mentioned in earlier posts from that lovely German East-Frisian island of Borkum, we spent our one night there with a view of this “new lighthouse” from the balcony. Quite lovely. Since we passed it much more frequently than the “old lighthouse” (the final image of which wraps up the end of this post, at the bottom), I have more photos of it in all the various light and cloud conditions we observed in our short stay. Since I now officially have a backlog of photos that might well last me into my next break from posting some time in 2024, I figure I’d better start clearing the trips from more than two months ago a bit more rapidly. Hope you enjoy the resultant gallery with every remaining photo from Borkum in which I saw any of the the three different lighthouses to be found there. (If the gallery doesn’t view well on your screen & you’d like to see all the pics, try either the “load full version” or shift to a desktop or laptop.)
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(so much world, so little time....) 