Beautiful Irish Beach Near Fanore Ireland
by Mark Tisdale
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Beautiful Irish Beach Near Fanore Ireland
Artist
Mark Tisdale
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Photograph - Photo
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Of all the stops I made on my initial bus trip around Ireland, this beautiful beach was one of the most memorable stops. I literally sprinted on to that beach while a bracing cold wind rushed off the sea to meet us. I wasn't alone, as you can see in the distance, but I think only a handful of us actually made it all the way to the ocean on that beautiful stretch of Irish beach.
For the longest time after getting back from Ireland, I was unsure just where this beach was. I knew that we had stopped here after leaving Galway, and that it was somewhere along the way to the Cliffs of Moher. But when you look at a map of the western coast of Ireland, that actually leaves a lot of possible bits of coastline to choose from. I shared my photos of this beautiful beach on various social networks and message boards since then and only recently came to the conclusion with assistance from others that this is very likely a little stretch of beach near the Irish village of Fanore in County Clare. It even sounded vaguely familiar after I read the response from a kind Irish person who first identified it. And when I compared my photos to others of that beautiful beach, and read the descriptions of its golden sands, I felt sure I had finally identified it. That said, if you're an expert in beaches of this area and believe it to be another, please speak up!
None the less, wherever this Irish beach is, that piece of landscape has never left my mind since and I must find it again one day. I would love to have a series of photos of it in different seasons. This one is winter complete with the cool skies one would expect. Sigh...
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October 11th, 2012
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