What better place to be on a cold and wet St. Patricks day than at the beach. After a handy tip off from she who knows about this kind of thing and given that I was going to be in Sligo over the festive weekend anyway, we headed down to the ever wild and windy Strandhill beach in the hope of catching some great kite surfing action. Only, we didn’t.
It seemed that the poor weather kept some people away, while others just setup their kit, stood around on the beach for a bit, then gave in and went home/to the pub. For what was billed as a kite surfing meetup, I think there was a total of 4 people in the water. So hugely disappointed was I that I only took about 500 photos…
Well, 500 isn’t alot really… Given that only about 20 or so of them made it onto flickr. We eventually got bored when it seemed the dire weather wasn’t going to make a move anytime soon, so climbed we back into the car and drove we away did. Such excitement at the prospect of a huge kite surfing meetup. Ah well. At least we got a nice lunch out of it. Few more on Flickr.
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Hi Ryan,
some of those are really cool. Colours in the second one are fantastic and I really like the third one.
There’s a competition in Tramore this weekend, theoretically scheduled for Sat and Sun. Weather doesn’t look the hottest for Sat at the moment (zero wind - I expect to be on travel photography) but Sun looks like it might be a bit better.
Interested?
Hugely interested… if I wasn’t going to be away in another as yet undisclosed surfing hotspot on the Irish coast. No names yet, the ears have walls…
Ryan
Don’t be negative about the “supposed big KS meet”, there was about 150 of us in Sligo that weekend. We were spread out along the coastline. The majority were out at Rosses Point. Pitty you missed it, the south beach at Rosses is like a natural amphitheatre with plenty of elevated spots at different angles you could have taken shots from.
Ah Well!
Great shots here though. What’s to complain about. As you said, the weather was a bit extreme.
Crap crap crap. I never even thought of going to Rosses point, which is odd seeing as we go there every time we go up to Sligo (cos it’s near the house). Not much to complain about really, I just love to have a bitch and moan sometimes
i envy you guys…lol
big waves cool..
i can’t wait to surf again..
kite surfing is the best
thanks