A Boat trip to Skelligs, what can one say : An Atlantic Ocean Island, 8 miles off the West Coast of Ireland, With World-famous Seabird colonies, magnificent scenery and the World's finest example of early Christian Monastic architecture on a cliff-top, 200 metres (700 feet) above the Ocean.
A Boat trip in calm weather
conditions only !!
Can be booked from the Lake Hotel or at your accommodation
It is a 2 hour drive from Killarney to the departure dock at Portmagee
In Skellig waters you shall also see seals and in season
even Basking Sharks and Dolphins
Enjoy
the puffins – pompous little citizens of Skellig – who, in season, will scarcely
step aside to let you pass. Listen to the nonstop arguments of the Kittiwakes
at Cross Cove. Identify the chirping purr of the storm petrels that nest under
virtually stone step of the way. Stop. Rest. Observe. And begin again.
In summer
season (Mid April to late September), Des and Pat Lavelle run a daily boat
trip to Skellig Michael - subject to the weather and sea conditions of the
moment. Departure time is 10.30am, and the departure
point is Portmagee harbour, a few miles off the Ring of Kerry route. The trip
takes about 1 hour and 15 minutes each way, passing very close to Small Skellig
and its 27,000 pairs of nesting gannets en route. But don’t have eyes only
for the birds; a dolphin can also take flight! Visiting time on Skellig Michael
is normally about 2 hours 30 minutes, giving you adequate time to tour the
old monastic site 200 metres above the sea, and to admire the puffins, guillemots,
razorbills, kittiwakes and fulmars nesting on the island from the end of April
to the early days of August. You are normally back on the mainland by about
4 pm.
It
is possibly the best Day Trip Ireland has to offer !!
Des or Pat Lavelle
Valentia Island, County Kerry, Ireland.
Tel: +353.66.9476124;
Fax: +353.66.9476309.
http://www.skelligboattrips.com/
Ideal Hotel accommodation centrally located
for all the great scenery in Kerry
