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Little Skellig - about 25,000 pairs of gannets nest here. Little Skellig - Divers with some serious horsepower Little Skellig - a small section of the 25,000 pairs of gannets which nest here. Little Skellig
Little Skellig Little Skellig Little Skellig Skellig Michael seen from a seakayak.
The Little Skellig viewed from Skellig Michael. The Skelligs on the horizon under the spinnaker sail. On a fast boat ride from Ballinskelligs on the mainland. The south west side of Skellig Michael seen from a sea kayak.
Tourist boats and the landing place on Skellig Michael. Tourist boats and the landing place on Skellig Michael. The landing place on Skellig Michael with steps leading up to lighthouse red railings on the start of the path to the lighthouse. Skellig Michael - the steps to the monastic settlement lead upwards from the path to the lighthouse.
Drystone beehive cells at the monastic settlement. Skellig Michael - At the monastic settlement the speaker tells his audience of why the monastic settlement was set up at this sheltered sunny spot on the rock, how the monks grew food, stored water in cisterns and how they may have felt about why they settled here. Skellig Michael - the east window of the medieval chapel built by Augustinians several hundred years after the settlement was founded. Skellig Michael - on the stairway to the monastic settlement.
A drystone beehive hut on Skellig Michael. Skellig Michael - puffins Skellig Michael - Lichen Skellig Michael - a cross at the monastic settlement
A drystone beehive hut on Skellig Michael. Skellig Michael. Little Skellig seen from the monastic settlement on Skellig Michael. Skellig Michael
Skellig Michael Skellig Michael - A doorway to one of the beehive huts. Skellig Michael - Sea Campion The Lighthouse on Skellig Michael
Skellig Michael - Thrift Skellig Michael - A doorway to one of the beehive huts. Skellig Michael - the path to the lighthouse. Skellig Michael