#Connemara on the #Wild Atlantic Way

#Connemara is almost entirely composed of mountains with intervening ravines surrounded by a sea coast of over three hundred miles with bays, creeks, islands, cliffs, and sands, waves and breakers, and surf, good for collecting botanical specimens of shells
From February to high summer Connemara is golden with furze its sweet, heady scent livening under a hot sun and late May early June the Rhododendrons are brilliant splashes of color
In sheltered valleys the hedges are vivid with fuchsia and from August on the purple mist of heather and ling descends on moorland and mountain
Autumn brings the rowan tree, the magic quicken tree of the old Irish fairy tales which has shinning red clusters of fruit
The main road from Galway to Clifden divides Connemara sharply into two parts, the south is low-lying rough moorland with numerous lakes, scattered with rocks and boulders.
The north has two great mountain chains; the Maamturks to the east of the “Lough- Inagh-valley”; voted by “Lonely Planet as one of #Irelands most scenic drives, and the Twelve Bens whose distinctive conical shapes appear in so many Connemara landscapes to the west.