Hi all 👋🏻
Today I want to share with you my walk over a floating boardwalk, the path along the SHANNON BLUEWAY and a visit to the DRUMLEAGUE LOCK.
Our starting point will be in DRUMSHANBO, COUNTY #LEITRIM ~ IRELAND 🇮🇪 and the walk was about 8,5 km.
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Today’s selection will be of 52 PHOTOGRAPHS
Date: 7 AUGUST 2023.
The Photographs in this post are all taken with my iPhone 📱🤓
I will follow the time stamps on them. So it looks like you are experiencing my adventures on this #walk, to 💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻 #discover everything what I saw, like the little #details seen through my eyes and observe with me this #WALK along the #SHANNONBLUEWAY towards the #LOCK all located in county Leitrim #ireland 🇮🇪 😊
The location of the Walkway and floating boardwalk you can find on the following screenshot of Google maps with the yellow star ⭐️:
Zooming out we get the following screenshot where you see the start at ACRES LAKE and the LOCK with the yellow star ⭐️:
More information about the SHANNON BLUEWAY you find in the following website: Shannon Blueway
On the website from the BLUEWAYS in IRELAND I found an explanation for you what a BLUEWAY is.
See the following screenshot:
Source!
Have a look around on this website if you want to know more 🤓
Let’s start our walk now 😊
Are you coming along?
Ok, here we go….
At the parking lot I found this large map. It shows we are at Acres Lake number 11. All the way down at the bottom.
After days of rain, we found a small window and headed out for a walk as we wanted to explore new areas.
We see the Acres Lough here.
Passing the gates…
We see the floating boardwalk in the distance. 😊
The sky is clearing up and we see some blue through the clouds.
A little pier goes out into the lake.
It has 2 benches on each side, people can enjoy the views and watch the world go by… 😎
Our view from this pier.
We walk quickly further and are walking over the floating boardwalk now.
We see beautiful waterlilies 🪷🪷🪷 around us and reflections of the clouds in the water.
The end of the floating boardwalk… we enter a path.
We will be walking along for a while and enjoy the views… the greens around us.
Some flowers will join us also today, as #alwaysaflower is needed to brighten our posts like 
We are crossing a road in the distance. 😎
Entering the BLUEWAY on the other side again.
We see a sign of DRUMLEAGUE LOCK. It’s only 2,5 km further.
We look at each other and decide, let’s go to there.
Passing by picnic tables 😎 to rest and eat a snack if you want.
I show you some reflections of this large tree 🌳
And we continue our walk towards the lock.
We even find some mushroom 🍄
See here a puffball.
I saw many more mushrooms 🍄 but I will share those in a #fungifriday post 😉 finally I have enough to share.
Luckily the weather has cleared up.
We see fields under the bright blue sky appearing.
Just look at the different shades of green in this photo 🤓 wow!
Some hidden corners seen through the vegetation next to us, we peek 🫣 through.
More beautiful flowers 🌸
Do you see the fly?… gathering sweet honey 🍯
The path seems long… but we continue 😎
We reach the lock.
Let’s have a look:
This is DRUMLEAGUE lock
Closer look at it.
Next to it we find the following information signs of the Waterways in Ireland 🇮🇪
Here you can read some more information. 🤓
I am standing on the bridge and have a better view now of the lock.
The other side of the bridge looks so calm…
Another sign… we walked from number 2 to 3 at this point.
After we walked down some steps… looking towards the bridge on the other side. We see this canoe slide 🛶
Walking up again and crossing the bridge again… we start our walk back to Acres lake. Our starting point.
The sign says it’s 4 km 😊
Hope you are up for it 😉
A gentleman is walking in front of us.
As you can see, even the sun ☀️ came out now 😎
Little huts for shelter when it starts raining are very helpful along this path.
But not today 🙂 I hope hahaha 🤣
As I am taking many photos… the older gentleman is gaining distance between us.
And we are enjoying the walk…
Well done us, we covered some distance too. Only 1,5 km left 😉
Crossing the road again… and going down on the other side.
Acres lake and its floating boardwalk in the distance.
Now we see the mountains as a backdrop too. 😊
The boardwalk…
The knot 🪢 I like this detail… from the boardwalk.
We see it is getting darker now.
Such a pretty view… don’t you think?
Areas where you can put your canoe 🛶 in the water along this floating boardwalk.
Oh no… the sky is turning very quickly now.
Maybe we should hurry up to get to the car again.
And we reached the parking lot, just in time before the rain 🌧️
…and here I say that’s all for today’s post my friends.
Join me next time for more #updates, #adventures, #stories and #photographs 😎👋🏻
Even my own #artworks, once in a while, will come by” 🎨
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Have a great Wednesday all 😎
Grtz Jackie
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