Another capsize, sand blasted nap
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Drying things, checking for damage
Dun Briste and capsizing over the Rising Serpent
Up into Easky Castle, off the water
Slog to Easky Castle, fall cold snap is here
Slieve League, Donegal Bay dolphins
Tiny Rockpool starfishes under Slieve Tooey, running out of water
So much awe under the double sunset arch
Tropical Donegal, life is too short for shit socks
The start of a week of Donegal sunshine, dancing on the beach
Teaching at Failte Swing Festival in Dublin
Meeting Sonja, driving the boat
Malin Head and sightless foggy night navigation
Eddy hopping, the parade of support with bags of food
Feeling unwell, a good cry in the harbor
705 Miles, staying with Jane
Vulnerability in the Causeway silence
Around Fair Head with Steve for the second time - 3/4 of the way done
Shorter day with Jane and Brona, realizing my tent smells
Made it to my support friends of the North, lack of sun protection
Nerves of Belfast Lough, fatigue and timing
Paddling under a double rainbow
The lovely window
Flying along, 15 mile crossing within the day feels normal now
Seeing Stanford Lough from land
Into Northern Ireland
In Louth with Richard and Valerie
Back out, now with Ireland on my left
There’s no medicine like your own bed
Back to Dublin
Moving through tar and the fear of Lyme
Moving an inch, realizing I’m stuck
More downtime in Galway
Halfway - Connemara
Projectile Rejection
Lack of motivation, making it to Inis Oírr
Time again with the sheer cliffs of Inis Mór
Cliffs of Moher and Doolin session
Off the water in Clare
Doonbeg arches and sea stacks
25 mile crossing, getting rid of “I can’t do that” and beefy reefers
Dolphins and Daniel Wiffen
Hanging out with Lisa in her van and on walks
Brandon Creek where Brenden the navigator departed
Here lives peace on Great Blasket
The families on holiday, paddling to Great Blasket
Crossing Dingle Bay, thriving
Pacific Northwest beach on Valencia
Back in the boat, still uncomfortable