Titanic pier, Cobh #coast #corkCoast #coCork #speirGorm #irishBlueSky #mastodaoine #cobh #titanic #lusitania pics K Grabe

A cautionary tale for any one (looking at you @opwireland.bsky.social) Thinking of interfering with water tables and levels with heavily engineered solutions, particularly in hydrological sensitive areas with historic buildings like Cork. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

#Innishannon Steam Rally in aid of Irish Cancer Society continues today! #coCork #westCork #WildAtlanticWay #speirGorm #irishBlueSky #mastodaoine #kinsale #steam #steamEngine Pics © Karl Grabe

Ballycotton cliff walk yesterday, MV Alta, people enjoying the sun & diving into the sea. #coast #corkCoast #coCork #speirGorm #irishBlueSky #cork #ballycotton Images © Karl Grabe

Camden Fort Meagher opens gates May and June are Wednesday to Sunday, 10am-4pm (last entry). Tickets are priced at €8 for adults, with concession tickets charged at €5. www.corkcoco.ie/en/visitor/c... #coast #corkCoast #coCork #speirGorm #irishBlueSky #fort #cobh #crosshaven Images © Karl Grabe

Summary: Antarctica’s Hektoria Glacier collapsed with shocking speed, retreating 15 miles in only 15 months and setting a modern record for grounded ice loss. ...warming conditions turned the glacier from seemingly stable to rapidly unraveling almost overnight www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Whale Watch Ireland 2026 Sat 23rd May the Irish Whale & Dolphin Group (IWDG) at a local headland. 5:00-7:00 PM. Free!! 🌍🔽 iwdg.ie/whale-watch-... #coast #corkCoast #westCork #WildAtlanticWay #irishBlueSky #kinsale #cork #iwdg #whale #dolphin #whalewatch #whalewatching #biodiversityWeek

Slea Head #sleahead #sleaheaddrive #wildatlanticway #dingle #dinglepeninsula #irland #ireland #photography #travelphotography #urlaub #holiday #travel #reisen #kerry #countykerry #irland #ireland

#Cork Museum Shows 2500-500BCE, a dynamic and connected society shaped by metal-working and trade Objects featured metal-working, feasting, luxuries, burials, revealing how people of the time lived www.echolive.ie/corknews/ari... #coCork #westCork #archaeology #speirGorm #irishBlueSky #drombeg

Field trip Sat to O’Neill’s quarry (thanks!) led by Dr Pat Meere #ucc and #Cork #Geological Association @corkgeological.bsky.social The quarry encourages biodiversity with ducks, sand martins nesting mound etc Pat showing water ripples, also a drying mud pattern #irishBlueSky #cork #uccBees

#cork #astronomy talk #UCC Monday 11th corkastronomyclub.com/calendar/

Blackrock Castle will be hoisted our clubs Astrophotography exhibition for the month of May. So please call up to castle to get a view of some our club members photos.

Coastal walks for you on the Old Head of Kinsale: wildatlanticwalks.com #coast #corkCoast #coCork #westCork #WildAtlanticWay #speirGorm #irishBlueSky #mastodaoine #kinsale #cork #geology

Greenland Shark in #Sligo Saturday Longest lifespan of any vertebrate, 272 to 512 years. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenla... Images by #IWDG.ie #coast #WildAtlanticWay #speirGorm #irishBlueSky #mastodaoine #shark

About to start ! #Astronomy #ucc #aliens #ocean #cork

MV Cill Airne #CIT (#MTU) training ship in cork harbour 2004. Ex Tender. Now a restaurant/bar in Dublin City Docklands. #coast #corkCoast #speirGorm #irishBlueSky #mastodaoine #corkCity Images © Karl Grabe

Our next public lecture from Cork Astronomy Club, will be examining the possibility that some of the solar system's icy moons may harbour life. Dr Hans Huybrighs. Will give his talk titled. “20,000 Leagues Under an Alien Ocean”.The date is Monday 13th April, 8 pm at UCC

Cork Humpback Whale makes an appearance in the harbour and at @MTU.ie Blackrock castle observatory this morning! #coast #corkCoast #speirGorm #irishBlueSky #1stapril #aprilfool #aprilfoolsday #mastodaoine #iwdg #whale #cork #iwdg Pics: kg

#Fossil walk #ucc Sat 4th #coast #corkCoast #speirGorm #irishBlueSky #cork #geology #coral

HMS Bounty in CorkJun 2011, it sank n in n storm Sandy Oct 2012. The replica ship used in 'Mutiny on the Bounty' #tallShip #coast #corkCoast #speirGorm #irishBlueSky #mastodaoine #cork #hmsBounty

Today, 2013, Belgian & Polish navies visit cork #coast #corkCoast #coCork #westCork #WildAtlanticWay #speirGorm #irishBlueSky #mastodaoine #cork #navy #poland #belgium

#Kinsale, #OysterHaven, #Cork Harbour #corkCoast #coCork #westCork #WildAtlanticWay #speirGorm #irishBlueSky #mastodaoine

Stormy waves, Garretstown today #corkCoast #coCork #westCork #WildAtlanticWay #speirGorm #irishBlueSky #mastodaoine #kinsale #coast #cork pic/kg

iwdg.ie/end-of-an-er... Pic: launch 2012/kg

Yes, fantastic!

#dingle Grounded #trawler with salvage vessel 'Ocean Bank' nearby today/1300 & 'Endeavour' of Dingle Safari RIB #coast #corkCoast #coCork #westCork #WildAtlanticWay #speirGorm #irishBlueSky #mastodaoine #rnli #corkCoastGuard

'Tom Crean' passing BlackRock Castle this afternoon. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Cre... Pic kg #coast #corkCoast #coCork #westCork #WildAtlanticWay #speirGorm #irishBlueSky #mastodaoine #kinsale #cork

Another one! #coast #corkCoast #coCork #westCork #WildAtlanticWay #speirGorm #irishBlueSky #mastodaoine #kinsale #cork #kitesurfing

Jumping Kite Surfer, today Garretstown #coast #corkCoast #coCork #westCork #WildAtlanticWay #speirGorm #irishBlueSky #mastodaoine #kinsale #cork #kitesurfing

#Kinsale Charles fort Lighthouse: BARRY OGES CASTLE 1665 RENAMED CHARLESFORT 1681 Acetylene 1929 PROPANE 1980 ELECTRIC 2004 RANGE White 9 NM Red 6 NM Green 7 NM Flash 1.0s Dark 4.0s HEIGHT 18M #westCork #WildAtlanticWay #corkCoast #speirGorm #irishBlueSky #kinsale #cork #cork

Drumlins at Bantry Bay, today, with leader Robin Lewando (#UCC). Tracton Biodiversity Group and Cork Geological Association @corkgeological.bsky.social #coast #corkCoast #coCork #westCork #WildAtlanticWay #speirGorm #irishBlueSky #mastodaoine #geology #Biodiversity

It happened again. Glashaboy flood relief scheme in Glanmire cost overrun is 316% From €12m budget to €38m cost. This is typical for OPW FRS works. Upstream storage would have been a fraction of this, less than €5m. Now multiply this by hundreds of projects. www.echolive.ie/corknews/ari...

Singapore, always leading from the front, will be building tidal barriers to protect their city-state from SLR. Who's next? www.straitstimes.com/singapore/en...

Cancelled

#Tallship #Astrid salvaged from outside #oysterhaven to Kinsale, it's original destination. Today, 12 years ago #coast #corkCoast #coCork #westCork #WildAtlanticWay #kinsale #cork #speirGorm #irishBlueSky #mastodaoine Pics KG

#LightHouse open day + talks Sunday 14th September Galley Head #coast #corkCoast #coCork #clonakilty #westCork #WildAtlanticWay #cork #speirGorm #irishBlueSky #mastodaoine

1977 #Yamaha #xs250 restoration New points & ignition timing u.pcloud.link/publink/show... #classicBike

The metal man, Tramore tramore.ie/the-metal-man/ Pics kg #coast #speirGorm #irishBlueSky #mastodaoine

Today, 2007, Prince William @ Old Head of Kinsale #coast #corkCoast #coCork #westCork #WildAtlanticWay #kinsale #cork #speirGorm #irishBlueSky #mastodaoine #tallship Pic: kg

#Kinsale today, 2014, at Charles Fort Jeanie Johnson famine #TallShip #coast #corkCoast #coCork #westCork #WildAtlanticWay #kinsale #cork #speirGorm #irishBlueSky #mastodaoine #CharlesFort #JeanieJohnson #famineShip Pics kg

Presumably the tree will be completed in due course... (Cair Castle) #speirGorm #irishBlueSky #mastodaoine

Dial-a-dolphin coming to your phone... iol.co.za/technology/2... Pic SB

19 Aug talk at the Old Head of Kinsale #speirGorm #irishBlueSky #coast #corkCoast #coCork #westCork #mastodaoine #WildAtlanticWay #ireland #irish #maritimeCork #courtmacsherry #kinsale #cork

Today 17 years ago Jeanie Johnston tall ship leaves Kinsale for #Dublin Old head of kinsale background #speirGorm #irishBlueSky #coast #corkCoast #coCork #westCork #mastodaoine #WildAtlanticWay #ireland #irish #maritimeCork #kinsale #cork #saveCorkCity #tallShip #JeanieJohnston Pic: kg

Cork city, 350 million years ago! hardcorecork.ie/corks-ancien... #speirGorm #irishBlueSky #coast #corkCoast #coCork #westCork #mastodaoine #WildAtlanticWay #ireland #irish #maritimeCork #goelogy #palaeontology #cork #corkCity #loveTheLee #saveCorkCity

Club member Charles captured this photo and in his own words. Imaged Messier 30 last night and ended up with this object which may be an asteroid, hardly a comet, deliberately brightened the image to show what I captured. Around 350 20 second subs stacked showing movement over 100 minutes

#Cork to #Kinsale greenway consultations Including Tuesday 22 July 2025, 14.00-20.00 The Viaduct Restaurant and Bar, Old Bandon Road, Co. Cork, T12 ND34 Public Consultation No.3 corkkinsalegreenway.ie/public-consu... #speirGorm #irishBlueSky #coast #corkCoast #mastodaoine #WildAtlanticWay

Geological art on Inis Mor. The natural world does it best.

On again tomorrow 2nd #speirGorm #irishBlueSky #coCork #westCork #paddyJoe #vintage #seamEngine

Ocean 2 City today cork city #speirGorm #irishBlueSky #coast #corkCoast #coCork #westCork #mastodaoine #maritimeCork #cork #corkCity #loveCork #pureCork #loveTheLee #saveCorkCity