Saturday 16 June 2012: Rampant geologists

A good day - the rain stopped for a bit and the wind eased and we headed off for a geology walk led by Ronan from Galway. We started off at Coomkeen then winded up towards the spine of the Sheepshead. This is what I learned:
Ireland is very new in geological terms
The Sheepshead is mostly sandstone with lots of quartz
It had a separate sheet of ice from the rest of Britain
The world is very old and humans are very new
There are lost of little green drumlins - where sand and silt was deposited by the ice sheet
Erratics abound
Geologists get very excited about rocks

Exhilarating and then we returned to Coomkeen which is the home of Durrus Cheese - world reknowned and run on a very small but profitable scale. We were given tea and a cheese plate and shown how the cheese was made. We then stopped off at Durrus village on the way home and had a large ice cream.

I've since been pulling bracken - also very satisfactory. We're just debating whether we will go in to Schull where the local drama group is putting on a programme consisting of 10 10 minute plays. This might be one excitement too many.

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