Part VII - The River Shannon...

In my previous post, the Cliffs of Moher, in order to get there, we had to cross the River Shannon. Note: In Ireland, they place "river" first---River Shannon, River Liffey, etc., unlike America where we use the name first...Colorado River, Mississippi River. Also a note with difference is Ireland, county comes first...County Cavan, County Donegal as opposed to America, again, name comes first...Lamar county, Nueces county. There is one other nifty piece of trivia I will show you later on. Anyway, we had to cross the River Shannon. The River Shannon is the longest, deepest river in Ireland. We crossed by ferry. It was about a 20 minute ride from one bank to the other. As we sailed, there was a lighthouse, Tarbert Island Lighthouse. The area surrounding this section of the river is an estuary, and it's called the Wild Atlantic Way, where the river joins the Atlantic Ocean [I left the map original size -huge! so you can peruse it if you wish -the red "x" I placed is where we made use of the ferry. Just another tidbit, the coach driver was very skilled! Being that the bus [ours is the red one in the picture] was just two passengers short of full capacity and luggage, it was heavy and the driver had to manipulate the bus, zigzagging at the dock so it wouldn't drag bottom on the ferry's deck. At about mid-point, I saw a sea bird as the ones that were nesting on the Cliffs of Moher - a true pelagic seabird, spending virtually their entire lives on the open ocean and only touching land during the nesting season... the black legged kittiwake...