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Benji Bower & The Terra Collective open the Ballydehob Jazz Festival 2025.

📷 Back on camera duty for the weekend.

🌍 https://www.benjibower.com/about

#Ballydehob #Jazz #Festival #WestCork #2025 #MayBankHolidayWeekend

Benji Bower at the piano & surrounded by various electronicals during the first concert at the village hall.

In blue, Benji Bower during the first concert at the village hall.

Benji Bower at the mic & surrounded by various electronicals during the first concert at the village hall.

We’ve just had 40-50+ minutes of constant thunder rumbling east of the village.

A couple lightening flashes in it too.

I can’t remember last time I heard it go on that long consistently. Amazing.

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📷 Click to see vertical panorama photo.

#Thunder #WestCork #Ballydehob #Weather #Church #StormySky

Vertical black white panorama photo rising up from a church, overhead clouds and with the barrier and trees behind us topping off the image.

Low tide in Bantry. #WestCork

A white and blue sail boat sits on muddy ground as the tide has drained all the water from the body of water. Behind the sailboat, you can see another small white boat closer to the sea wall. On the other side of the sea wall is a street with a few buildings. Above them is a blue, cloudless sky.

A good few fire crews, a couple of ambulances came & went with sirens going & Gards turned up. 🚨🔥🚒🚑

Fire still smouldering but looks to be under control.

#Ballydehob #WestCork #WildFire #Fire

From: @JasonLee
https://mastodon.ie/@JasonLee/114427410092188979

Fire truck on the road next to a fire & smoke rising into the blue sky.

Ambulance on the road next to a fire & smoke rising into the blue sky.

Fire support vehicle heading down the road into the hazy smoke filled air. A car approaches in the opposite direction

Flames and billowing smoke lifted by the winds over the hedgerows and road to Schull.

🚨 Big fire at the top of Ballydehob, by the vets, west side, right now.

Fire crews in attendance.

#Ballydehob #WestCork #Gorse #Fire

However slightly drunk and however wholly kind

Remembering the Great Famine
Thomas McCarthy

#Poetry #ThomasMcCarthy #TheGreatFamine #Ireland #VerseDaily #Cork #WestCork

https://www.versedaily.org/2025/rememberingthegreatfamine.shtml

Red Cans and Boat Plans

Twenty years ago, I visited Baltimore in Co Cork and photographed these people coming from a boat in the harbour. They were in great form, with smiles all around. 🙂

Apertureƒ/8CameraCanon EOS 20DFocal length39mmISO100Shutter speed1/250s

#Baltimore #boats #coastal #Cork #CorkPhotos #dock #ferry #fishing #fuel #harbour #Ireland #irishblogs #maritime #Photo #Photography #rural #StreetPhotography #waterfront #WestCork

A harbor scene in Baltimore, Co Cork, Ireland showing people in waterproof gear carrying red fuel containers on a dock with small boats moored nearby, directional signs for "TOILETS", "FERRY", and "CAR PARK" visible, and a 6km speed limit sign in the foreground.

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Lighthouse Open Day
Sunday 27th Galley Head
Near Clonakilty

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https://maps.app.goo.gl/nXkSPothTMHaxbHt7

#speirgorm #coast #corkCoast #coCork #westCork #WildAtlanticWay #ireland #irish #maritimeCork #courtmacsherry #kinsale #cork #corkCity #mastodaoine #Lighthouse #Clonakilty

Do I know anyone in #WestCork who is hiring in the film/media industry? I know someone who has moved here from the UK who has a background in producing that is looking for work.

A new one for me, I haven’t the likes before. If confirmed, a rare visitor apparently. Maybe very rare to these hedgerows.

It stopped on a branch, I stopped on my bike. We looked across at each other for a moment.

I’m going to cycle out there again today, see if I can get another sighting and hopefully a photo for confirmation.

For now, it’s the closest match I can find.

#CollardFlycatcher #WestCork #Ireland #Rare #Bird #Visitor #BirdWatch 🐧🪶

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collared_flycatcher

A Collard Flycatcher on a branch. Photo from Wikipedia.

🐰 In den Osterferien auf einer Ziegenfarm in Irland las Lotta aus Berlin meine ☘️TÜTE GRÜNER WIND.☘️. Sie sammelte wie das Mädchen im Buch am Strand Nixentränen und half mit den Ziegen auf der Farm.

Immer mehr in dem Jugendroman kam ihr bekannt vor…😲

🐐Lotta erzählte das dem Ziegenfarmer. Der wunderte sich, schrieb mir eine E-Mail und fragte nach.😊 > https://wp.me/p3DAMs-19I

#EineTüteGrünerWind #TheGreenestWind #WestCork #LesenMachtGlücklich #Irland #Ostern #Osterferien #Buchtipp #BookFaceFriday

Foto von einem im Bett lesenden Mädchen. Das Gesicht wird vom aufgeschlagenen Buch verdeckt. Man sieht das Buchcover von EINE TÜTE GRÜNER WIND - SOMMERFERIEN IN IRLAND.

And our Easter #lamb has arrived #WestCork #ireland

Rainy Good Friday #WestCork #ireland

WOWW!! 😍🤩. The Aurora Borealis / Northern Lights ‘emerged epically’ over Courtmacsherry areas in West Cork , Ireland as ‘Easter 2025’ looms! 🤯🥰📸🌌💥🌊🐣💚♥️ #auroraborealis #aurora #NorthernLights #sunset #astronomy #Spring #April #Easter #Easter2025 #WestCork #Cork #Ireland #mastodon #mastoart #mastodonart #mastoartist #mastodonartist #mastodaoine #photography #photo #photographer #landscape #landscapephotography #art #colours #nature #naturephotography #StormHour

Thanks for the tip-off Joe!

Caught a little bit just now.

Hopefully there’ll be more as the night goes on.

#Aurora #Ballydehob #WestCork #Ireland

From: @helvick
https://mastodon.ie/@helvick/114349394533185995

Even at 3-500 metres from where I was sat on the cliff, the fin was still distinctly visible.

Friend’s were out kayaking here the day before when they found themselves amongst Basking Sharks & Minke Whales. “The plankton was fizzing”.

While they were out one of the local whale Watching boats arrived.

#BaskingShark #WestCork #Ireland

The west end of the island falls sharply to the grey blue sea, just beyond, zoom in, a Basking Shark fin is visible at the surface.

Community tidy-up-and-fix day at An Sanctoir in #WestCork #ireland

Saw my first Hoope the other day.
Out for a cycle and decided on a last minute diversion here (📷 Panorama). Just as I spotted, it spotted me and took off.

#Hoopoe #WestCork #MizenPeninsula #Cycling #Birding