Four Mile Water

This may not be the most scenic of landscapes but it records a place I have wanted to reach for some time, and for a change I feel like writing about it.

This is where the descriptively named 'Four Mile Water' reaches its destination and emerges into Dunmanus Bay west of the village of Durrus at the head of the Mizen and Sheep's Head peninsulas. See the map for the location. The harbour has silted up but was once navigable to here.

The small promontory, from where this was taken, is only accessible at very low tide by squelching through evil smelling mud and over slippery seaweed-strewn rock risking quick submersion or a bone-snapping fall. But there is a structure here, seen on the right, that I imagine may have been a small tower guarding the entrance to the estuary or a quay of some kind and I wanted to inspect it. 

Camera stuff... This was a difficult file to process. It is a Fuji RAW file demosaiced initially with PhotoNinja which is particularly good at preserving detail in images like this (the detail in the trees and seaweed for example). Finished in Lightroom and NIK collection's Dfine2 to remove some noise in the sky.


PS - if you have not discovered it, the map now allows 'Street View'. Drag the little man from the top of the scale onto the road near my location marker and turn the view until you see exactly where I was standing (and you can count the swans). Isn't that cool?