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O'Neills Bay is a surf beach on Auckland's West Coast. If you look closely you see a surfer entering the water with his dog staying behind. I was on a walking group outing and did not bring my camera. This is an iphone panorama. I am used to shooting RAW and it was a bit disappointing not to be able to recover blown out highlights in the waves but otherwise I am quite happy with the result.
One of the oldest homes in Pittsburgh PA is the Neill (Neal) House. Some records say it was built circa 1765, others in the 1770's. It resides with the confines of Schenley Park Pittsburgh's Civic Park
In winter, Linnets form large flocks to forage.
Red listed in UK - nice to see this - just part of a larger flock.
At Billy Neill MBE Country Park.
“O’Neill’s (Estb.1885) is a Victorian Dublin pub owned and operated by the same family for more than 100 years.
On board a 1980 400 cc CAN AM - not a common bike in these parts. The Jeff Wright Memorial Scramble in aid of Motor Neurone research. Rory went on to win the final race of the day, the Jeff Wright Memorial Handicap.
I have made a study of this barn, which seems ready for the end. Someone has rifled the engine of its faithful companion and left the hood up since my last visit.
pb, gz, as / iPhone
Rembrandt, looking a little sad he never had the opportunity to meet the phenomenal artist Mariah O'Neill.
Source and discussion:
www.flickr.com/groups/portraitparty/discuss/7215762346188...
Mariah's work:
No prizes for guessing that this is a former Citybus/Ulsterbus vehicle - new as Ulsterbus CCZ 8814. Now with O'Neill of Naas and seen in Clane on a school service.
Valentia Island is one of Ireland's most westerly points. It lies off the Iveragh Peninsula in the southwest of County Kerry. It is linked to the mainland by the Maurice O'Neill Memorial Bridge at Portmagee. A car ferry also departs from Reenard Point to Knightstown, the island's main settlement, from April to October. Another, smaller village named Chapeltown sits at roughly the midpoint of the island, three kilometres (two miles) from the bridge. Valentia Island's permanent population is 665 (as of the 2011 CSO Census). It is about 11 kilometres (7 miles) long by almost three kilometres (two miles) wide, making it the third-biggest island off the Irish coast.
The English name 'Valentia' or 'Valencia' Island does not come from the Spanish city of Valencia. Instead it comes from the Irish name of Valentia Harbour, cuan Bhéil Inse, "harbour-mouth of the island". It was anglicized as 'Bealinche' and 'Ballentia' before evolving into 'Valentia'. It is possible the spelling was influenced by Spanish sailors; there is a grave marker to Spanish sailors lost at sea in the Catholic cemetery at Kylemore
The Irish name for the island is Dairbhre, probably meaning "oak isle". It was historically anglicized as 'Dariry'.
Valentia was the eastern terminus of the first commercially viable transatlantic telegraph cable. The first attempt in 1857 to land a cable from Ballycarbery Strand on the mainland just east of Valentia Island ended in disappointment. After subsequent failures of cables landed at Knightstown in 1858 and Foilhommerum Bay in 1865, the vast endeavor finally resulted in commercially viable transatlantic telegraph communications from Foilhommerum Bay to Heart's Content, Newfoundland in 1866. Transatlantic telegraph cables operated from Valentia Island for one hundred years, ending with Western Union International terminating its cable operations in 1966.
Prior to the transatlantic telegraph, American longitude measurements had a 850-metre (2,800 ft) uncertainty with respect to European longitudes. Because of the importance of accurate longitudes to safe navigation, the U.S. Coast Survey mounted a longitude expedition in 1866 to link longitudes in the United States accurately to the Royal Observatory in Greenwich. Benjamin Gould and his partner A. T. Mosman reached Valentia on 2 October 1866. They built a temporary longitude observatory beside the Foilhommerum Cable Station to support synchronized longitude observations with Heart's Content, Newfoundland. After many rainy and cloudy days, the first transatlantic longitude signals were exchanged between Foilhommerum and Heart's Content on 24 October 1866.
On 21 May 1927, Charles A. Lindbergh made his first landfall in Europe over Dingle Bay and Valentia Island on his solo flight from New York to Paris. On the 1927 Mercator chart used by the famous pilot, it was labeled Valencia.
In 1993 an undergraduate geology student discovered fossilised tetrapod trackways, footprints preserved in Devonian rocks, on the north coast of the island at Dohilla (51°55′51″N 10°20′38″W). About 385 million years ago, a primitive vertebrate passed near a river margin in the sub-equatorial river basin that is now southwestern Ireland and left prints in the damp sand. The prints were preserved by silt and sand overlying them, and were converted to rock over geological time. The Valentia Island trackways are among the oldest signs of vertebrate life on land.
On 14 March 2021, Valentia Island was the site of the first walrus sighting in Ireland.