It’s time to kick-start this blog so here’s a photo I took a few weeks ago on our way down to Gougane Barra.  There’s a little picnic area which we seem to stop at each time we go down that way.   I can’t remember exactly where it is but it’s near enough to Béal Atha an Ghaorthaidh, or Ballingeary which you may know it as but it never sounds as nice as the Irish name.

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Another photo of the Jeanie Johnston from last weekend.  She was still docked in Cork over this weekend but I’m not sure how much longer she’ll be there.

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The R&H Hall can just about be seen looking through the masts and lines of the Jeanie Johnston last weekend.

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One of the Irish Navy boats comes into Cobh and is just being overtaken by a leisure boat on a fine day last weekend.

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The Cork Head of the River took place on Saturday as I mentioned yesterday.   The course starts almost up at the Port of Cork sign and goes all the way down to Blackrock Castle if memory serves me correctly.  The yellow boat is unusual in that it has 8 scullers, called an octuple according to somebody on Wikipedia.  These girls must have been fairly new to rowing as they were getting passed out by the single sculls on the inside.  The weather had turned by now although the wind was with the rowers over the course which probably helped those rowing in the afternoon.

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The Cork Head of the River took place yesterday so I went down to take a few photos.  I really needed a zoom lens to get any good rowing shots but there might be a few shots from this over the next few days.

I used to row with Cork Boat Club a long time ago so I could appreciate how tired people were when they were rowing against the wind after completing the long course!

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