Home surf

 Car dashboard dust collector. Squeeze him and he talks. "Size matters not."

Every time I'm back in Ireland I try to get at least one surf session. Anticipation driving up to the coast. You know you're close when you pass this section of pine trees arching over the road. Familiar.
 

Burns No.1! Northern Ireland political nonsence. No end of this on the way to the coast.

Heavy clouds over Portrush.

At the turnoff to Whiterocks. The typeface doesn't really suit the message, but made me smile none the less.

Small fun April wave on East Stand. Evening session with Rus and Rick. I'm surfing a yellow epoxy mal that I bought secondhand from Andrew the photographer in Dubai and gave to my sister in Ireland. Very different riding it in a full 5/3mm wetsuit compared to boardshorts and sunscreen in Dubai.

Portrush city lights from West Stand. Taken whilst eating fish and chips in the carpark post-surf. Nostalgia.

Boats of Donegal

£10 single speed

Northern Bank note with John Boyd Dunlop's single speed. In 1887 he developed the first practical pneumatic tyre. Founder of Dunlop Tyre Company etc. Well tight geometry on that ride.

Five and a half

Irish summer

These pictures where shot in the space of 2 or 3 days. You can score all four seasons in Ireland in such a timeframe.

Parking the car to visit the Ulster Museum. A rainy grey Agincournt Avenue, The Holylands, Belfast. Grim.

Rain shower over Downings or Carrigart, Donegal. Shot from Fanad Head on return from a surf dawn patrol. Typical Failte Ireland (Irish tourist board) shot.

Blue skies over grazing land behind Glassagh strand on Fanad Head, Donegal. Picnic location, picnic weather.

Lough Neagh rushes in the morning sunlight. Oxford Island, Lough Neagh, Co. Armagh. The Heritage and Discovery Centre there will tell you how baskets and eel traps are woven from these very plants...

Typical euro summer sky. It's warm, but it might just rain. Bring a rain jacket or not? Either Moira, Co Armagh or Bruxelles. But it could easily be anywhere in northern Europe during summer.