North Atlantic Skyline - - Photographs from the west of Ireland (Galway, Mayo, Clare, Limerick, Roscommon and even Leitrim)

The Voyage Home

Aasleagh Falls marks the place where the Erriff river flows into Ireland’s only major fjord – Killery Harbour. Every spring, millions of young eels (elvers) are carried all the way from the Sargasso Sea on the North Atlantic Drift . Some of those that reach the west coast of Ireland swim into the fjord and wriggle their way up the falls to spend their lives upriver. Years later, the survivors will journey downstream again to make the trip back to the Sargasso Sea to breed.