Rainy Day Cormorant

The rain seemed to make this cormorant especially friendly :)

Guided sea kayaking trip out across Glengarriff Bay...

They are pretty specialized, deep-diving seabirds known for hunting fish by swimming underwater.

They can swim to depths of 45m.

Unlike most seabirds, they have wettable feathers that allow them to sink easily, necessitating their iconic pose of standing with wings outstretched to dry.

A group of cormorants is called a gulp!

Click Here To See Details Of Our Glengarriff Bay Sea Kayaking Tours; Plus Our Bioluminescence Night Kayaking

Lowland Leader Assessments - Cork, Ireland

Our pre-summer Lowland Leader Assessment, is fully booked, however if there's enough interest it may be possible to schedule another for May/Jun (either midweek or weekend), in Glengarriff.

 

Please get in touch to bushcraftireland@gmail.com if you're interested, and also let me know if you can do midweek as well as weekend.

 

Thanks, Nathan 

Roasting Limpets - Bushcraft Training

Needed to practice something for a bushcraft course in May; that's involving sea shore foraging.

Limpets; pretty tasty; usually cooked in hot water, like mussels. But without a pan; what can you do?

1. Heat a stone on a small fire (which also sterilises the stone). 

2. Place limpets onto the stone.

3. Drag some hot embers over the top.

4. Leave roast for 4-10 mins, depending...

5. Clear the embers and eat off the stone.

 

In this case I overcooked them slightly, but still really good 🙂

While mussels are delicious, and we do eat them, limpets can be safer to eat; as they don't filter feed-they graze like a cow; so collect less potential toxins.

Limpets are high protein, have omega 3 fatty acids, and vitamin b12, among other things.