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Contrails Over Sheep’s Head Peninsula

Hiked to end of the isolated Sheep’s Head Peninsula, while 1,000’s of people flew silently to N. America (contrails).

Sheep’s Head Peninsula: walked on a ridge trail on peat, rock, and heather, with the Atlantic on each side.

Today, we start walking The Sheep’s Head Way.

Cork, Ireland, end of noisy pub meal, the server said “turkey sex farty.” Fighting the fog of jet lag, I paid €36.40

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Rock art, Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, Australia’s Red Centre. Kodachrome, 1992.

4-day tramp, Kepler Track, South Island, New Zealand, 2006. The mist did a dance, revealing glimpses of steep valleys

Marine smoke grenade, backyard family gathering, near New Orleans, Louisiana, 2003.

The sun suddenly punched through dawn, in the Andes, near Puerto Blest, Rio Negro, Argentina in 2008.

Clouds imitating planes at Kona International, Hawaii Big Island, while waiting for an interisland flight in 2005.