Let's climb a mountain!

It was Father's Day in Ireland last week and the boys treated me to a lovely day. It started out with golf at 7am and they had a lovely home made card and a present for me when I got home.

I really wanted to do something, so we decided to go out to the farm and climb a mountain.

Here are some photos I got showing the beautiful flowers, bog cotton, glacial erratic rocks, glacial lakes and much more.

In this fiest photo we see Lough Corrib, lush forestry and dark Galway clouds.

Next we have a large erratic glacial rock and mighty windmills behind in the background.

Next of all qe have a glacial lake, forestry and bogs lined with turf.

Now for a splash of colour and some wild poppies with one of the Twelve Pins mountains visible in the background.

On we go to another flower shot.

Have you ever seen Big Cotton before? I thibk you'll agree, it's beautiful to look at blowing in the wind.

This was the view half way up the mountain.

Now for one of my favourite shots. Look at all of those glacial erratics peppering the landscape. Millions of years ago glaciars passed through this valley and deposited these massive boulders as they moved slowly along.

Another one here of the very picturesque Bog Cotton.

And another of those glacial Erratics that I like to see. You can't beat the rugged beauty of Conamara.

This one shows a road cutting through the middle of the forest, with a lake in the background.

You can just about make out my kids in this next one.

Here is an even better one of the three of them enjoying the view.

In this next one, we can see the rain starting to fall a few miles away in Oughterard.

This is the view from near the top.

This is the view in the opposite direction from near the top, beautiful isn't it.

Back now with a splash of colour, these wild flowers found their way up here and dance happilly in the wind.

Now a trio of photos of the lovely Bog Cotton. It's latin name is Eriophorum angustifolium and many people around the world actually eat this plant, though I've never tried it myself.

Now I'll leave you with a nice pop of colour to close this series out. I hope you enjoyed these photos.

The images used throughout are all my own captured on my Samsung Smartphone

Thanks as always for stopping by everyone.

Peace Out