Went on a quick trip with my son to Dalkey Island with my son today and we got extremely lucky weather wise 🙂
I have visited it once before, but honestly few days of sunshine have changed the entire experience… spotted few seals too, unfortunately the goats seem to play hide and seek with me and other that the evidence of their digestive system working well, I still haven’t seen them!
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I’m literally online researching my trip to Dun Laoghaire that starts tomorrow! How do you get to the island? Any other recommendations? 2 young kids.
The seals 🦭 🦭🦭🦭🦭🦭🦭
It was the summer of ’04 and I was a wee lad 12 years of age. I was summering at one of the local boat clubs.
As a young man I’d had a fascination with boats and despite having no experience nor anyone in my family giving a shit about boats I asked if I could join their fleet for the summer. Given we were firmly in the clutches of the Celtic tiger, my parents capitulated to my notions.
It was a windy, rainy summer. I had never learned to swim and it turns out I was terrified of the water. I hated ropes, wetsuits and the way your skin drys in sea water. Every day at the boat club was 9-5, torture for a young man on his summer break.
There was however, one day where we went out to Dalkey Island. We had a picnic there, lots of sweets and fizzy pop. And it was there I got my second kiss of all time (my previous romantic conquest had been at a disco run in an establishment in Stillorgan known as leisureplex). It was the first time I ever partook in what was colloquially known as ‘fingering’ at the time and so the place has fond memories for me.
I hope your experience was as magical as mine, Op.
So lovely, hard to believe they used to put pirates in Gibbeting’s on display there.
We took the boat to the island today as well. It is something we do once a year. Bittersweet with Ken being gone. We didn’t realise Ken was so ill last we saw him and it was a great shock to hear of his passing. His had such a wealth of local knowledge and was just lovely to listen to.