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Tour 2007
April 2007
11 - Shannon Bridge to Tarmonbarry - Shannon Navigation inc Lough Ree.
Tuesday 10th April 2007
We departed Shannon Bridge at 07:15, Clonmacnois was passed at 08:30 and we arrived below
Athlone Lock at 10:30. What with getting our Shannon Navigation pack and a rather dopey locky we got out at 11:20. It was a 3hour 40mins passage up Lough Ree in cold overcast conditions, it blew up a bit at the end and by the time we were approaching Lanesborough Bridge, we were really surfing in, with the wind right behind us. The only things of note out on Lough
Ree was that a hire cruiser with tender cut right across in front of us, with
Earnest missing their tender, by a matter of inches. We also spotted a wide-beam narrowboat style Riversdale Barge...that was not meant to be out on Lough Ree!
We started to take it a bit easier, arriving above Tarmonbarry Lock at 16:50. After a water fill up we moored up on the floating pontoon, the only other boat soon left leaving us alone on the moorings. That evening we wandered off to Clondara to look at Richmond Harbour and the locks, then repaired to
Keenan's Bar for a nice meal and a pint.
Morning departure from Shannon Bridge. Shannon Navigation.
The exit of the old navigation cut around the river through Athlone. Shannon
Navigation.
Waiting on the fixed moorings below Athlone Lock. The river has come down about
a metre while we have been on the Grand Canal. Shannon Navigation.
Athlone. Shannon Navigation.
Entering Lough Ree.
Autopilot! Lough Ree.
Lough Ree.
Lough Ree.
Looking back at Buoy No 4 protecting Warren Point. Lough Ree.
The Black Buoy marking Millstone Point. Lough Ree.
By the time we have got to Bantry Bay, the wind has got up. Lough Ree.
The Riversdale barge Emer has got lost! (they are not meant to go on Lough Ree!)
The black Buoy protecting the rocks off Blackwood Point. Lough Ree.
Looking back at Inch Mc Dermot and Inch Henaugh. Lough Ree.
Lough Ree.
Exiting Lough Ree. Lanesborough ahead.
Exiting Lough Ree.
Lanesborough. Exiting Lough Ree.
Lanesborough Bridge. Shannon Navigation.
The commemoration stone in Tarmonbarry Lock. Shannon Navigation.
Clondara Lock, on the short Clondara Canal, this accesses the Royal Canal at
Clondara/Richmond Harbour and by-passes Tarmonbarry by the Camlin River Route.
Shannon Navigation.
Clondara Lock, Clondara Canal. Shannon Navigation.
Clondara Lock, Clondara Canal. Shannon Navigation.
Clondara Lock, Clondara Canal. Shannon Navigation.
Clondara Lock from the bridge over the Clondara Canal. Shannon Navigation.
The Thomas Omer Clondara Lock cottage, Clondara Canal. Shannon Navigation.
Richmond Harbour from the Royal Canal Richmond Bridge
Looking up the Royal Canal from Richmond Bridge.
Our overnight mooring at Tarmonbarry of the floating pontoon above the lock.
Shannon Navigation.
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