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- Jul 29, 2022, 11:08am
- ⛅ 17 °C
- Altitude: Sea level
- IrelandMunsterCorkBallyroon51°32’3” N 9°46’23” W
The place where Elvis died
July 29, 2022 in Ireland ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C
Well, someone was wondering what happened yesterday.
Very little! 🙂
I decided to stay put and do a little laundry 🧺
Have to keep up standards when you’re yachting. It a small world and you’re bound to meet someone you know from home.
After the boat work I went ashore and paid a visit to the memorial garden for the Air India disaster. It’s only a five minute walk from Ahakista.
There are now photographs and brief details of many of the victims which wasn’t there the last time I visited.
I retraced my steps and headed in the opposite direction and visited a stone circle and continued along the road until I got a view of the bay.
Enough of that I thought, the further you walk the further you have to walk back!!
The ‘Tin Pub’ was open so I had to pay a visit.
I think it was about 16 years since I was last there and I couldn’t remember the interior.
It gets its name from it construction. Both the walls and roof are corrugated iron.
The inside is lovely and the landlady is a gas woman. I just had to have a second pint 🍻
I wandered back to the Eureka and made the dinner and settled in for the night.
There you are, you now know about yesterday.
Now back to today.
I had planned on making an early start but when I woke up at 07.30, it was too early.
The next wakening at 08.30 was almost too late!
The anchor was coming up by 09.00 with lots of lovely sticky mud. No wonder the holding is good 🤪
Had a nice beat down the bay with the odd bit of soft Irish weather.
By the time I got to Mizen Head the sun was out and the wet gear put away.
Much better than having the sun first and rain later 😎
Decision time.
Crookhaven, Schull or Cape Clear??
A small craft warning ⚠️ was announced over the VHF.
If wasn’t for my area but I knew it was heading south tomorrow afternoon so I decided I had enough grub aboard so I headed for Cape and rang Donal to check out North Harbour.
Good to have friends in the right places 🙂
Tied up next to Ri Orga at 16.00 and luckily Donal was on hand to take the lines as I was set up to come alongside port side to and Donal wanted me starboard side to.
Luckily I had a few fenders out on that side as well.
It was flat calm in the harbour so we had plenty of time to rearrange everything.
I’m sitting in more soft Irish weather with the Bimini keeping the weather away.
Going nowhere for the next few days so don’t expect to hear more until I have more 🤪
Oh yes nearly forgot!
Bet you’re scratching your head about Elvis??
He hee.
I was in Irish College in C. Clear in 1977 when the Bean an ti (woman in charge of house) came in shortly after we had gone to bed and told up Ta Elvis marbh 😢 (Elvis is dead)
We spent the rest of the night listening to Tony Prince in Radio Luxembourg play wall to wall Elvis, an Ri (the king)Read more
Traveler enjoy Cape pat
Traveler Oh I did, Ronan! 🙂