Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2017/10/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks Nathan, but that's the Atlantic in the west of Ireland he's jumping into - generally a couple of degrees celsius warmer. Today Kilkee and most of Ireland was lashed by the just about ex Hurricane Ophelia, so there would have been few threading the boards today. We were also affected by O'Feelya on the east coast too, and there were a couple of blown down trees within a hundred metres of my house. However, us hardier east coast Irish Sea types (I mean me) cycled down for a swim at 9.30am before breakfast to Seapoint despite the Code Red warning. It's is a wonderful place filled with eccentrics, so, generally, there's someone, or twenty, down swimming when I go, so I'm generally not alone. Today, it did look like I was going to be alone in the water, but a guy who had been in earlier said he would stay around (to throw me a lifebelt, should I have needed it). Of course, I didn't, and the swim helped greatly with my appetite for breakfast. It was lovely in, Nathan, and perfectly safe in my own mind, as I think I have a finely tuned instinct for self preservation, swimming as I do there everyday. I'm going to try and swim through the entire winter, but am not going to be fanatical about it - just optimistic. Mind you, there's nothing wrong with optimism, as long as you don't get your hopes up :-) Douglas On 16/10/2017 20:13, Nathan Wajsman wrote: > Wonderful images. But to jump into the Irish sea at any time of the year, > you have to be nuts?spoken from a Mediterranean perspective ;-) > > Cheers, > Nathan > > Nathan Wajsman > Alicante, Spain > http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/> > http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > <http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ > <http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/> > Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator > <http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator> > YNWA > > > > > > > > > > > > > >> On 11 Oct 2017, at 22:39, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote: >> >> Newfy or New Found Out is a cliff jump with diving boards in Kilkee, Co. >> Clare. >> >> In the summer, when the place is thronged with girls and boys, it is a >> test of testosterone - or stupidity - as young men try to impress the >> onlookers with feats of daring as they dive or jump in when the tide >> gives the landing zone enough water to be forgiving. One misjudgement and >> they split their skulls: a perfect dive and they wind up with something >> decorous hanging on their arm. If they chicken out, it's public >> humiliation.... >> >> Mind you, when I was down there in September, all the youth had left, >> scattering back to schools and colleges, but there were a few arsing >> around very inelegantly on the boards. None of them dived, as the water >> was still at the red section of the marker boards, but, then again, I >> wouldn't have dived in either as I'm a fairly misshapen missile at this >> stage of my diving career. However, in my youth....(cue regretful sobbing >> into my swimming towel) >> >> Jumping from the diving boards at Newfy, Kilkee, Co. Clare. Fuji X100S. >> See LARGE. Three images that made me regret not bringing the Sony A7ii >> and a few lenses. >> >> Just to give you some perspective, the really brave go in off a wall >> that's at least 15 feet higher than where my camera position is, and I'm >> standing way above these people. Funnily enough, one of them ran after me >> when I was leaving and asked me was I from "the paper". People seem to >> think that anybody who doesn't use an iPhone must be from Magnum. >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/Kilkee/Kilkee+2017+Newfy.jpg.html >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/Kilkee/Kilkee+2017+Newfy+Jumper.jpg.html >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/Kilkee/Kilkee+2017+Newfy+Jumper2.jpg.html >> >> Douglas >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information