Ireland day 0563. Friday 14 April 2023- Guests Sutton *

Ireland day 0563. Friday 14 April 2023- Guests Sutton
Today’s summary Val was at work so I walked down the coast to Howth with our guests.   My longers post-op walk to date.   Caught the 102 back
Today’s weather Bright and sunny most of the day, brief shower later in afternoon.   Light north westerly wind.   Appx 10C
Today’s overview location
(The blue mark shows the location of our route)
Close-up location
(The blue line shows where we walked)
(Click button below to download GPX of today’s walk as recorded, or see interactive map at bottom with elevations corrected):
Sutton 15k
Commentary

(Summary blog only.   Last full blog was Day 0368).

Val was at work again so I walked down the coast to Sutton with our two guests.

En route we passed through the castle demesne, Paddy’s Hill, the Velvet Strand, Baldoyle, and Sutton beach.   Caught the 102 back from Sutton.

The weather was magnificent – lots of bright sun and blue skies.  We added on a loop round Sutton at the end to bring the total length up to 15km – making it my longest and probably most enjoyable post-operative walk to date.   I took the trekking poles but didn’t really need them, except on some of the rockier sections of the beach.

A magnificent day out.

Today’s photos (click to enlarge)

Heading up into the Castle demesne James and Katie at the northern end of the Velvet Strand in Portmarnock
Val sadly was left at work while we went swanning off in the sunshine.   but at least she managed to get out for a bit – here she is keeping the Museum gardens in tip-top condition Down on the beach in Sutton
Two different drive chains for the road-rail vehicles at Sutton station.   Here is method 1 And here is method 2
Impressive road-rail vehicle parked outside Sutton station.   The metal wheels allow it to run on the rail tracks as well as on road with the tyres
Interactive map

(Elevations corrected at  GPS Visualizer: Assign DEM elevation data to coordinates )

Total distance: 14895 m
Max elevation: 50 m
Min elevation: -1 m
Total climbing: 134 m
Total descent: -141 m
Total time: 04:04:25
Download file: Sutton 15K compressed corrected.gpx

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