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

Junkyard Blues

What do you do when you have a beautiful, and unique, natural resource on your doorstep. Why, crap all over it, of course. Above is a photograph of the Coral Beach in Connemara from April 2003 (the 'sand' is actually tiny pieces of brightly coloured coral - hell to walk on in bare feet but shines incandescently in the sun) and below is a picture of the same parking area a couple of months ago. Despite a survey claiming that Ireland has significently less litter now than ten years ago, our citizenry still seemed determined to bury the country under as much junk as they can throw at it. Short of threatening to shoot litterbugs on sight, I don't see much hope for the future (and we'd still need a lot of bullets...)

UPDATE Sept. 1: Some of the pictures don't seem to be appearing on the site. I think it's a Flickr problem, so hopefully it will sort itself out shortly.

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