Barley Lake

Exhausted, hungry, overwhelmed by a long mountain trekking, yet absolutely grateful for this day. I couldn´t ask for anything else more. But in the moment I returned to the beginning of my trail, I just looked back. What I witnessed was something else. I saw the sunset casting its golden light upon Barley Lake, modifying the same landscape to something else than what I witnessed earlier this day. The shadows, the water reflection, the colour tones, the wind, the smells, everything just transported me to a different world in this moment. Beyond gratefulness, I felt blessed by Nature!

Glengarriff (Gleann Garbh), Co. Cork, Ireland
2018, March

A mountain summit lake

A curious place to find a small lake, in the summit of Killane Mountain! Along with many other bogs, I supposed this was a remaining testament to the previous and now melted snow. From this summit, and with the favouring weather, the landscape stretches beyond Beara´s Peninsula and deep into Kerry Co. Here, I could see Ireland´s highest mountains, the Macgillycuddy's Reeks range (Na Cruacha Dubha), with its peaks still under a snow blanket. Certainly a vision for future trails.

Glengarriff (Gleann Garbh), Co. Cork, Ireland
2018, March

Rough terrain

In a more intimate perspective, I ended up surrounded by rough terrain, with rocky steep slopes, composed by dark sandstone, interwoven by patches of golden grassland. The trails along Co. Cork and Co. Kerry border remained the only walkable throughway.

Glengarriff (Gleann Garbh), Co. Cork, Ireland
2018, March