Extinct volcano erupts!

Not really - just some amazing light and clouds on the way home from work.

A very interesting talk about the shipwreck last night- once she managed to get the technology working!! Schull is having a new water system put in which involves large pipes and dredging. When dredging is called for an archaeologist has to be on hand - just in case. It was almost the last bucket of stuff when she noticed timbers popping out through the mud, and a rescue dig was put in place. Two trenches were dug and five underwater archaeologists employed. it seems likely that the whole ship is still there but they just had time and money to excavate a small bit - the hold. Large boxes were found but whatever was in them had rotted. The seven coconuts were the most surprising and interesting find. The thinking is the ship was a merchant ship going from the Caribbean possibly to Spain and it was pirated, brought back to Ireland where it sunk 100metres off Schull, The date - 1625ish. The coast of Ireland is literally bristling with wrecks and yet there is no maritime museum, and unlikely to be one in this financial climate.

Tonight's arthouse - a French film 'Les Femmes du 6eme etage' and is about Parisians facing their own complacencies when confronted with a gang of feisty women escaping from Franco's Spain, will report back.