An epic day. After another good night in Mary Ann's we were in bed for 10p.m. with a view to leaving Castletownsend on the falling tide. We got up at 5 a.m., got ready and were in the water at 6.50a.m. The wind was calm and we made great progress with the tide. We rounded Toe Head, made for Kedge Island and then for the southern most tip of Cape Clear. On the clear day we could see Fastnet Rock in the distance to our left. The southern tip of Cape Clear is one of the most southern points in Ireland and the falling tide genereated swells of 4 meters (George and Tom you would have loved it!). From there we made a bee line for Mizen Head before the tide turned . We made Mizen Head at 1.35 p.m. - 35 miles paddled since this morning. We then turned north on a heading for Castletownbere, the wind was West South West and the tide turned against us. The 13 miles from Mizen Head to Castletownbere were a hard slog but we eventually pulled in at 6.30 p.m, 11 hours 40 minutes in the water (no lunch stop) 50 miles covered.
We have camped up for the night but unfortunately the weather looks to be against us tomorrow and we might be grounded again. Thank you for all your comments and words of support, we are taking great encouragement from them.
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Derek is now on Chris deBurgh
Tony is nearly bronzed all over and I am no longer allowed to eat seafood or drink Guinness - the tent has become uninhabitable.
3 comments:
well done lads on the progress so far.Hope the weather co-operates a bit more with ye for the rest of the trip.
I'd stay on the chowder and stout Brian until he agrees to belting out tripe like that! I'm surprised he hasn't hit ye with "The Old Fourth Waterford" yet for inspiration.
50 miles guys - that's pretty inspirational. any interesting scenery/wildlife along the way? some photos would be nice. derek sounds like you're breakin their hearts with the singing - their achy-breaky hearts...
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