Hopeless quality, I know, but I didn't have a proper camera (phone only), we were rocking about a fair bit and I was supposed to be driving. What on earth are they? we said, puzzled. Some kind of hazard, obviously. A quick check of Waterways Ireland's Marine Notices informed me they were monitoring buoys, but gave nothing away about what they were monitoring. Had I been paying proper attention to the Summer edition of the Inland Waterways News Magazine I would have known all about it. A company acting for Irish Water put them there. What's being monitored is the status of Lough Derg in relation to water abstraction - Irish Water plan to filch water from the lake in order to help quench the very heavy thirst of Dubliners, but they can't just go ahead and do it - they have to put in a water abstraction application.
The lake was as beautiful as ever as we motored south towards home.
Back in Mountshannon Harbour again and Joe was immediately busy blow torching the decks. A very tedious job, but less tedious than using just a paint scraper. There was a huge mass of algae in the corner of the harbour where we put Winter Solstice - you can see it in the photo.
You can also see what the weather was like - Joe was relying on the high pressure forecast to get the job finished.
So he kept going well into the evening:
If you look really closely you can see Winter Solstice on the right hand harbour wall. I'd gone down on the bike with cake.
Next day and this part of the job was nearly done.
As night began to fall ...
... he was onto the last bit. Here we go:
And so we reach the end of another beautiful day:
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