Ferries:  All as normal today.

 We recommend checking the ferry web site if you are travelling any great distance, click the link: Cape Clear Island Ferries.com

This blog is maintained by Cape Clear Island Hostel: www.capeclearhostel.com

Wet or Dry: 
Dry overnight and throughout the day.

Sunny or Cloudy:

Simply stunning clear skies and hot, hot, hot all day. Temperatures were up to 80 degrees in the garden yesterday and the same today.
A lovely clear view of the night sky last night with the sky chock full of twinkly stars.

Temperature: 

A chilly start  but rising quickly to sensationally hot all day.

Windy or Still:

No wind.

Sea Condition:

Calm.

Tides  - approx: 

High:

Low:    03.20

High :  09.15

Low:    15.42

High:   21.36

Using 24 hour clock

Birds:   see also http://capeclearislandnews.blogspot.com/ .

Red Throated Pipit

Red Backed Shrike

Pied Flycather

Ring Ouzel

All on 10th October 2010, reported by John Lynch

Chickens x 5:  Maggie; Oraiste; Teapot; Billybob; Ginger  

Plumage: looking good (haven't moulted since I had them)

Eggs: 

Flowers

Roses looking lovely  - pink and gorgeous..

Fuschia is still a delight and full of bees buzzing.

Marigolds are gorgeous.

Geraniums are in flower.

Too many flowers to mention them all.

Vegetables from the walled garden

Lettuce

Onion

Carrots

Spinach

Cabbage

Beetroot

Potatoes

Planted turnips

We had tomato,carrot, and onion soup last evening and it was lovely mmmmm.

Water Shortages

Please use water sparingly as water is still rationed on Cape

Fishing:  

Decorating etc - no time for fishing this week.

Thought for today:

A hobby needs a man much less than a man needs a hobby.


Books:    Currently reading: 
Henry Martyn Field's History of the Atlantic Telegraph, published 1866:
A great quote from the opening page ' 


Terry Coleman's Passage to America, published 1972.