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Thursday, September 30, 2010

Looped Walks and Trails


This Sunday is National Trails Day...click here for full details.
Rathgormack Hiking Centre Lough Mohra Loop Rathgormack
Rathgormack Hiking Centre Exploring The Gap nature and landscape Nire Valley to Rathgormack
Kilmacthomas Walking Club Crohaun Walk Mar Mar Rd near Lemybrien
The Comeragh Mountaineering Club The Comeragh Mountaineering Club Open Day Coumshingaun Corrie Lake in the Comeragh Mts




Worth checking out the Discover Ireland website for the section on Looped Walks. Click here.
You can download trail maps.

Sunday, September 12, 2010

September/October walks

Hi everyone,
What a great summer this was for us humans as well as the plants, butterflies and bats (less so for the 5-in-a-row hurlers perhaps, but we can't all be happy!).

Here are a few outings in the wild - or close to it - for the autumn season that might interest you.
Saturday, Sept 18th; IWT National AGM in Cork (members only) . 11am - 1 pm / Forest Walk after lunch)
Sunday Sept. 26th: 2pm Tramore : Seaweed workshop. Free event, no need to book.2pm.... a free Seaweed Workshop hosted by Marie Power, Regional Chairperson of the Irish Wildlife Trust, Field Ecologist Grace O’Sullivan and Hilary Killops on the front deck at Oceanics Surf School & Marine Education Centre. The Seaweed workshop will focus on the health benefits of seaweed and its uses, from tasting to cooking with it, and the identification of seaweed will be included. (anyone got a more recent picture...this one from 2004)
Check the archive on this blog for uses of seaweed.

Saturday October 2nd: 2-4.30pm: Mushroom Hunt in Lismore. More details and booking arrangements on the IWT website

Sunday October 24th: Seaweed Wokshop, Clonea Strand, Dungarvan. Booking neccessary. Details on the local website, part of the Return to the Deise weekend.

Everyone is welcome to IWT outings and feel free to pass this on to anyone you think would like to join an informal walk / talk in nature and some sharing of knowledge about plants, animals, birds, habitats etc. We would love to hear your suggestions / proposals for walks, events, practical conservation work in Waterford and the South East.