Strange wind during a wild camp in the Pot of Legawherry.
Gusts arriving in pulses through the night — roar, silence, then the tent getting hit again.
By morning the clouds revealed what was happening in the valley.
New Walkwatchers video out now.
youtu.be/w2BnQrFY0rU
#mournes #wildcamping
A piece of wartime aircraft wreckage still lies in the Pot of Legawherry. A quiet reminder that weather and terrain in the Mournes can turn quickly.
The mountains always deserve respect.
#mournes
Found a sheltered spot in the Pot of Legawherry and started pitching the tent. Low ground. Slopes blocking the south-west wind.
Or so I thought…
#wildcamping #mournes
First surprise in the Pot of Legawherry today. Frogspawn in a quiet ditch on the valley floor. Even in a place shaped by wind and weather, spring is already starting.
#mournes #nature
The light glistening over the receding tide. Mournes with some clouds but most of the sky clear.
Mournes in the sunlight
From the former railway line in Dundrum
The bay here is Dundrum Inner Bay.
#ContaeAnDúin
#SpéirGhorm
#Mournes
View over a hedge, through a branch running right to left, over a field and trees to the peaks. Under a hazy cloudless sky
Slieves Donard and Commedagh from Carnacaville, near Newcastle.
#ContaeAnDúin
#SpéirGhorm
#Mournes
A lovely dash of colour over the Mourne Mountains and Carlingford Lough this morning.
Video from Greenore looking towards Haulbowline Lighthouse, with sunrise over the clouds above Greenore Golf Club.
#carlingfordlough #greenore #sunrise #irishsky #mournes
Late afternoon light, including a view of the #Mournes and Slieve Patrick
#Lecale #LeathCathail
#CountyDown
#SpéirGhorm
The mourne mountains in black and white, a dusting of snow on top
Snow-capped mourne mountains #photography #mournes #infrared
#Mournes - snow high on the peaks.
Viewed over Drumlins from
#Lecale #LeathCathail
#CountyDown
#SpéirGhorm
Stone and sand beach, Irish Sea. Cloud-covered Mournes Edge of Prom to the right
Newcastle Beach, receding tide, #Mournes.
County Down
#SpéirGhorm
Looking from the Holloway to the Northern #Mournes
#NYE2025
#Lecale #LeathCathail
#CountyDown
#SpéirGhorm
Northern #Mournes across Dundrum Outer Bay
Buzzard nearby
St John's Point
New Year's Eve, Eve.
#Lecale #LeathCathail
#CountyDown
#SpéirGhorm
There’s something surreal about pitching a tent in the kind of wind that makes the fabric hum.
But once the light goes on inside… the whole world shrinks to the size of a warm shelter and a cup of something hot.
#CampingLife #NightHike #Mournes
Sun setting behind the #Mournes.
Looking across Dundrum Outer Bay to where the mountains come down to the Irish Sea.
Taken at Rossglass Beach.
#LeathCathail
#CountyDown
#SpéirGhorm
Mournes, Donard, Commedagh from the Burrendale, Newcastle. #Mournes
120th + 80th birthday celebrations.
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Across #Quoile waterway, in sight of Slieve Donard and Slieve Commedagh, #Mournes
Water high so no rocks for birds to perch on.
#Lecale #LeathCathail
#CountyDown
#SpéirGhorm
Cloud-capped #Mournes from the townland of Magherasaul/Machaire Sabhall ‘plain of barns', @placenamesni.bsky.social
#CountyDown
#SpéirGhorm
Corrected from earlier post.
Dark clouds, then layer of lighter clouds The undulation of the peaks The sea The rocky foreshore
The #Mournes from Rossglass Beach, across Dundrum Outer Bay (Irish Sea).
#Lecale #LeathCathail
#CountyDown
#SpéirGhorm
#StJohnsPoint Lighthouse
With a view across to the #Mournes
#Lecale #LeathCathail
#CountyDown
#SpéirGhorm
#Mournes, Slieve Donard and Slieve Commedagh from Carnacaville, near Maghera.
#CountyDown
#SpéirGhorm
Another one from The Mournes.
© Artur Sikora
Rollei 35TE + Kodak Double X 250@800 + yellow filter
#landscape #mountains #mournes #ireland #photography #rollei #35mm #kodak
Slieves Donard and Commedagh
#Mournes
Fantastic nimbocumulus clouds
#CountyDown
#SpéirGhorm
From Newcastle Promenade.
The Mourne Mountains. The magic of endless open space. Silence.
©Artur Sikora
Rollei 35TE + Kodak Double X 250@800 + yellow filter
#photography #landscape #mournes #kodak #rollei #35mm #film #analogue #ireland
Mix of clouds and clear sky over Donard and Commedagh
#Mournes from the townland of Carnacavill (Carn Mhic Cathmhaoil).
#Donard and #Commedagh
#CountyDown
#SpéirGhorm
