A ride across Clew Bay is a ride under the distant attention of sheep grazing on the drumlins.
We continue our journey towards the Northwestern tip of Ireland before crossing to Iceland.
Clew Bay is said to comprise 365 islands, but this is a myth. In fact they are far less. The islands are drumlins, elevations created by the accumulation of rocks and clay under the glaciers that were covering the whole Northern Europe long ago, followed by the erosion resulting from the movement of the glaciers. This resulted in a corrugated aspect of the moraine gently sloping into the sea, creating inlets sinking into the land and islands further offshore, the drumlins.
East side of Clew Bay on Google Map using "Relief" base map
The first drumlins appear as we get out of the Westport inlet. Their borders are eroded by the sea and the tides.
The erosion may result in such funny shape as the "hat" on the picture below, where just the centre of the drumlin remains after having been eroded by the sea on all sides.
"Imagine ... above us only sky" was singing John Lennon in 1971, four years after having bought the Island of Dorinish in the Clew Bay, pictured below. He brought on the Island the Sergent's Pepper psychedelic caravan as a place to reside when on the Island. The John Lennon Island is still an attraction visited by tourists.
Dorinish Beg (left) and Dorinish More (right),on the John Lennon Island
The marks below are at the entrance of the narrow-shallow Achill Canal where we will find shelter for the night.
Cloughmore anchorage along the Achill canal
Grace O'Malley, the Pirate Queen's towerhouse
Cloughmore fish farm net factory
Our journey from Galway, 151 nautical miles so far and 23,5 for the day...
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