Saltee islands again, after last year (see here).

And again, we were lucky with the weather: after a gloomy morning  we had a good day for picture taking.

Wind and water (from the cabin 🙂 )

The landing

We were blessed with a sunny(ish) day, so we managed to dry up quiclky after the boat ride. I was a bit windy and I ended up soaked. At least for the first 10 minutes 🙂 .

After that we moved to the the first nesting placve we were going to visit:

Where u going?

There’s no privacy anymore!

Puffin

Watchful eye

Unfortunately we didn’t see as many puffins as last year 😦

After some time in the howling wind we moved to the gannets’ nesting place.

The easy path to the nests

After the last rocky bit (which was a bit of a challenge for somebody) we got the the nests. You can smell it long before you see it…

Gannets

Birds and sea

Fly

Blue sky

Three musketeers

Nesting

I almost stepped into this guy’s nest… -.-‘

Down there

And that was it for the day: unfortunately we couldn’t stay for very long and soon had to go back to the boats (which turned out to be an adventure itself).

Time to leave

We’ll be back next year 🙂 !!