silky sea
Thursday, June 30, 2005, 04:01 PM
The sea here is beautiful and fresh these summer days a cool 15 degrees or so but refreshing in these humid hot days. Its such a pity that so few 'ordinary' people bother with swimming at least not in the sea. It is so health-giving containing so many life giving properties. I even see my goldfish become very energetic after I introduced seaweed to their pool. I'm not sure whether they were made drunk or poisoned by the seaweed but they sure became very frisky like people at a party - party on goldfish " says I to them, as I gave them another lot of the weed when I got back from Dun Laoghaire beach today. And, interestingly, this is the only place that I have seen such a profusion of fresh weed in Dublin bay.;)
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( 3 / 15 )from lovely pier to ugly wall
Wednesday, June 29, 2005, 02:24 PM
This is what they want to take away from us:
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and this is what they want to give us in return or something even worse:
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( 3 / 18 )The sea, oh the sea, is grá geall mo chroi
Sunday, June 26, 2005, 03:37 PM
A little Irish ditty about how the sea has protected us from total domination by the English over all these years - its so nice to have so much sea per inhabitant. But, of course that ratio is changing rapidly as the public costline is being eroded by privateers and the population is ballooning.
We may become like the old landlady and her daughter living in the centre of Rumania, xho always longed for a little house by the sea and poisoned every rich traveller staying overnight so as to get enough money to buy their dream, as told in a story by Camus. Unfortunately, their last victim turned out to be the longlost well-heeled son and brother in cognito, whose identity they only learned from his papers after he had drunk the poisoned tea.
Of course, the old lady and her daughter couldn't live with themselves so the threw themselves into the weir where they usually disposed of their benefactors' bodies.
Anyway it was a beautiful sunny fay by the beach at Dunlaoghaire this Sunday for which we can thank Alla and those great British Marines who built the Dunlaoghaire Pier and beach back in 1817 or so. Of course we Irish had a part in it too but not on the design, if what we have done since and are planning to do now is anything to go by.
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( 2.6 / 19 )dunlaoghaire swimming pool
Friday, June 24, 2005, 03:56 PM
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Old map shows that this area beside the baths is indeed a 'bathing' pool as they used to call it in the old days. There are granite steps leading down into the sea and the bed is nicely paved to give a very safe swimming area.
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( 3 / 15 )who, when, why or what killed beach
Friday, June 24, 2005, 03:44 PM
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From Rome to Paris to Boston we read that the city authorities are spending enormous amounts on creating artificial beaches for their people and to attract visitors.
Here at Dunlaoghaire we have a beautiful beach designed specifically as far back as 1817, perfect for sunbathing and swimming and everything except building sandcastles, and we can do without sand in our things anyhow, which our elders are about to decree should be burried under muck and concrete.
It is not as though we haven't enough green fields to walk over but very little beaches which we can reach. But it seems that the land grabbers have grabbed all the land they can handle for the moment and have turned their attentions to the sea, which they hope to inherit for free from our beloved elders.
They have lined their pockets from car-parking on land and now are hoping to repeat the get-rich quick formula by charging for parking of all bodies both mechanical and human on the sea in marinas and activity centres.
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