Well hello and welcome to the Driftwood Boat Blog. It's the middle of November it's
freezing cold it's wet and it's damp. So it's not exactly boating weather. So
we're going to head away on a little mini adventure. Common, let's go to Galway. Yes that's right we're off to
Galway to see the Corrib navigation and see what else Galway has to offer.
Well it's just a short train journey from the marina here in the town to the
University City of Galway where absolutely everything is happening. We
went up there on a Wednesday in November and it was still vibrant, there was music
in every Pub.
y'all ready? All ready.
When you step off the train in Galway you find yourself deposited here right
in the city center at Eyre Square where the Christmas market is just getting
started.
Well here is the Corrib River and you can see there's quite a current in it, and
there's no way you could navigate up there. But just paralleled with it is the
canal basin. And that at one time, would have brought you up to eh, to Lough
Corrib and indeed on up as far as Lough Mask. Look how calm that is compared with the other side. There's bit of a contrast is'nt there? Ye
So this is where the canal goes through but sadly there's a low bridge there nothing kills a canal
quite like a low bridge because when it comes to restoring a navigation it's
probably the most difficult thing to get removed the Corbury canal up in Naas
is completely choked by a culverted bridge and if you look further up there
you see there's another bridge as well. The same happened on the on the Royal
Canal there was a famous bridge a railway bridge blocking it just as it
goes, where it meets the River Liffey and they
put a lifting bridge in there but it was, there's so many rows between the railway
company and the canal company as to who was going to lift the bridge and it
became a very impossible solution. It got named the F'ing bridge.
Spellt F apostrophe ing. And there's another F'ing bridge.
so this is another Irish navigation this is not on the River Shannon this is
Lough Corrib. Lough Corrib is in County Galway and kind of straddles the border between
Galway and Mayo it's a landlocked navigation in that
you can't get to the sea from it now can you get onto the Shannon
navigation from it. But it is it's a lake I've never gone boating on. Not yet I'm gonna
have to see about it because having come here today and had a look around
it's it's really much bigger than I thought on a it's absolutely beautiful
lovely crystal-clear water here it's a super super duper spot I'll have to
learn a little bit more about Lough Corrib one thing I did find out there's
over 1,300 islands on this Lake and that's that's just incredible. Have a pan
around there and I see what you think of it.
And back in Galway Marion found somewhere to sit down and rest her feet
but she couldn't get much conversation out of this pair.
And sadly guys that's where our trip to Galway had to come to an end. I hope
you enjoyed it and remember if you do happen to find yourself on a boat in
Athlone, if the weather's not good, jump on the train.
You're guaranteed a good day in Galay. Well I hope you've enjoyed our videos
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