Visiting the Puffins on the Saltee Islands

Visiting the Puffins on the Saltee Islands

Although I’d seen puffins in flight at sea when I lived on the Isles of Scilly, I had never seen them on land, and neither had my partner George, so this summer we went to visit their nesting site on the Saltee Islands in County Wexford in the south east of Ireland....
Sea Pinks Time

Sea Pinks Time

Every day I walk up the steep path along the edge of the harbour and climb to the top of the headland overlooking Dingle Bay. The grassy banks and cliff edges are covered with rounded mounds of thrift or sea pinks, defying the wind and salt spray and clinging to the...