Wordless Wednesday : Is the Train on Time?

Weekly Photo Challenge : Work of Art

 

 

Sometimes, even the most ordinary and functional things can be made into a work of art.   This treatment plant, on the Blackrock walk in Cork, has been camouflaged to fit in with the surroundings, and also to give people something to smile about as they run, walk, jog or cycle along  the harbour.

Linked to Weekly Photo Challenge.

A Flock of Seagulls!

While walking by the estuary near Blackrock on Tuesday evening, we saw hundreds of seagulls resting on the mud at the edge of the water.    Gulls like to feed in flocks, so they were probably having a light supper on all the goodness left behind by the tide.    As the tide was out, we couldn’t get too close to them, so they were oblivious to the flash of the camera, and kept feeding and resting there.

Walk the Line…

Blackrock Castle

My friends and I often do a 2 hour walk in Blackrock, about 20 minutes from Cork city.   A lot of this walk goes along the Marina, on the south bank of the River Lee where it runs into Cork Harbour by Blackrock Castle

Dogs, cyclists, runners, walkers

.   The return part of the walk goes along the old railway line which ran from Cork city to Blackrock, a line which has long since been closed.   There are a lot of walks around this part of Cork which were railway lines up to the 1950s, but when cars and other forms of transportation became more plentiful, it was felt that the trains were no longer needed, and a lot of the tracks were taken up.    With the amount of traffic on the roads nowadays, some of these old railway lines are being utilised once more.

Here are some shots of this very popular amenity for walkers, cyclists, joggers, runners and families and dog walkers.

Old railway station on the railway line

Bridge over the line

And this is one of the places where you can start or end the walk, Blackrock Castle, at the mouth of Cork Harbour.

A view up the River Lee to Cork city

Blackrock Castle