The Ulster Festival of Steam and Transport at Ballymena. We go most years and it always seems to rain.
There weren’t as many steam engines as in previous years, probably down to Covid. I expect it will take a bit longer for events such as this to get back to normal and it can’t be easy to transport these huge engines around the country.
This year it rained as usual but not until we were leaving.
Bangor Open Bowls Tournament, July 2022.
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The Pickie to Pier swim in Bangor leaves Skippingstone Beach, just past the Pickie play area and finishes at the RNLI launch ramp at the base of Eisenhower Pier. It’s a distance of around 800 metres and about 200 swimmers take part.
After a 30 year lapse the swim was relaunched in 2019. It was cancelled in 2020 due to Covid, but returned in 2021.
This year the swim took place, for the first time in the evening, on Friday, 8 July 2022.
Another photograph of a Harland and Wolff Shipyard crane, this time viewed through a gap in two apartment blocks. The two cranes, Samson and Goliath, dominate the Belfast skyline and are much photographed.
Samson is the largest at 348 feet against Goliath at 315 feet. Unfortunately I don’t know which one this is. I need to see them together to tell them apart.
A Glass of Thrones window. This one is House Stark and is located on Donegall Quay at the AC Hotel. Six of the windows are spread along the Maritime Mile
Two images, from the same place on a stony stretch of shore on the Antrim Coast, but looking in opposite directions.
It’s Summer but I took this photograph in the Spring. Now thoughts are turning to repairs, general tidying up and staining fences and sheds to prepare for the Winter. The seasons exert more influence on us than we like to think, even in the 21st Century.
The two Harland and Wolff Shipyard cranes that tower over the city.
This image was taken some years ago. The red brick wall is no longer there and the railings have been replaced by a wire fence.
