August 5th, Day 53. The Cliffs of Moher! Such a cool day, paddling along side Matt and Emma, two unreal paddlers who have been all over the world paddling and adventuring. Emma and I got our bits ready to go and drove to meet Matt at Doolin to drop his van to then put his boat on top Emma’s and drive to Doonbeg to get my boat. Said farewell to Ruth who meets nearly all the paddlers going around the coast because her house is basically on the beach and I was off. Paddled across the bay to Quilty to meet Matt and Emma and then we carried on to the cliffs. A very fun bouncy sea of 2 meter swell and wind behind us, and oh was the sea pretty dynamic. Good stuff altogether, nothing crazy. Emma also took some amazing photos of me which I was very happy about! Finally have some photos of me paddling taken from another kayak on this trip.
We got into Doolin all giddy and silly as I put up my tent and they loaded their boats on the van. Then we went to Doolin for pints and music and oh my how fun was that. Great diddly eye music, not the Irish music geared towards Americans. Just quality sessions. Went to two pubs and ended at a place with pure unreal music, amazing instruments and lots of people dancing almost like we were in a club but not in the dark lighted trashy way ya know? Just good vibes and wiggles. After the band stopped there was a session of just people singing and someone would sing a song and others would shush the pub so we could hear and on and on. Really lovely. We ended laughing all the way back to the pier about a joke and the rule with this lot is - fuck em if they can’t take a joke. Another killer day.
