I’ve been told you can see Wales from Ireland before on a clear day but never have been able to before. On my morning walk with my dog though I spotted them in the sunrise. Very cool I think. 😎

Happy New Year’s Eve everyone!

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Posted by Nadirin

18 Comments

  1. MinimumRepulsive1419 on

    I moved to Wales recently – it’s a great spot, has an abundance of affordable housing and plenty of well paid job opportunities. Crisps arent as good sadly….

  2. DruzhbyNarodiv on

    That’s awesome! In all my time hiking around Wicklow mountains I only ever saw them once. Very happy for you!

  3. newaccountzuerich on

    Camera is between 45m and 52m altitude, though that may differ with refraction and other atmospheric density changes.

    That’s based on the visibility of “Mynydd Gwaith”, the sliver of 446m hill second from right.

    Its an interesting mirage line at the horizon, suggesting a hint of a temperature inversion too.

    The PeakFinder app on phones, the https://heywhatsthat.com and https://www.udeuschle.de/panoramas/makepanoramas_en.htm websites, are all wonderful tools for helping to understand what’s seen past the local horizon.

  4. My son and I were Mountain Biking in Wales a few years ago. We stopped at the end of a trail for a breather and met up with some English guys. We got into conversation and when asked where we were from told them “Ireland”. One of them replied “Oh my God. You came all the way from Ireland just to go Mountain Biking”? I casually raised my hand and pointed at the Wicklow Mountains which were clearly visible, and said “I live just there”. The reaction was hilarious. They genuinely did not know that you could see Ireland from Wales. Even a Welch guy who came along and joined in thought he’d been looking at the Isle of Man when he’d seen it before.