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Just got back from a trip to Claddaghduff in Ireland. We stayed next door to the cottage we used to stay in when I was a kid. It’s opposite Omey Island which is a tidal island meaning you can walk over to it across the sand when the tide is out twice a day. It’s about a 4km walk to get to the other side of the island.
I remember walking up to the pub to use their payphone and call the nintendo hotline in the 90s when I was stuck in my Zelda game. The pay phone is gone, but almost everything else here is the same.
My bedroom faced Omey and nothing gave me more pleasure than watching the tide come in and out every day and shouting about how far in or out it was.
Now I’m back in NYC and kinda devastated I have no tides to watch.
Jul 9, 2024
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A tiny island 12 miles out into the Chesapeake Bay that feels like the setting of a Stephen King book. Due to rising sea levels, the island is destined to be underwater within 50 years. This is apparent during high tide when parts of the island become impassable. Less than 450 people still live there and primarily rely on crabbing & fishing to make a living just like the generations of watermen before them whose lineage can be traced all the way back to the 1770s.
I filmed there for work in 2018 and stayed overnight at a b&b. There was no wi-fi, no cell signal, no cars, but, inexplicably, there were SO MANY cats crawling all over the island. I’m a city gal, so I was certain the place was haunted for all the reasons mentioned, but especially because people buried their dead on their own front lawns since their cemetery turned into marshland and several graves were lost to the sea.
Photo cred: Ian c bates
Mar 28, 2024
no one hmu i’m visualizing my life in this house while i am in my weird ass hostel. also i took this pic while in st. abbs. what a wonderful day on the coast. giving YOOOO HOOO
Mar 16, 2024
I love visiting this park whether it’s clear and sunny or gray and foggy. Different vibes but always beautiful with the iconic rocky coast.
The waves were pretty big today so it was a pleasure to take in the sights and sounds of them crashing in their ebb and flow, washing over the rocks, receding back into the ocean, rinse and repeat.
It’s already breathtaking to be by the ocean in all her beauty and vastness and to be reminded of how small we really are. Rocky coasts like at Two Lights also offer that feeling of smallness in a temporal sense, as we only witness an infinitesimal moment within the grand timeline of coastal erosion, while sitting on the rocks that have been shaped and continue to be shaped by the ocean.
Anyways, highly recommend visiting if you happen to be in southern Maine, healing is only a 20 minute drive from Portland :)
Apr 13, 2024
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I’m so addicted to my beaubble freckle pen that I worry my friends are going to throw me a fake freckle intervention any day now.
The new glossier lip liner in graze is the first one I’ve found that colour matches enough to fill in my cupid’s bow.
Long red nails because I like the sound of them tapping the iphone screen. Sorry to anyone in my vicinity who does not enjoy that sound.
I went to the pool on Sunday with another long nailed friend and we laughed about the sensation of running them through the water… like having little flippers on your fingers. I felt like a beautiful duck-billed platypus.
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yeah this stainless steel ice tray has to be left out for 10 mins before you can dramatically pull up the lever but damn does my ice taste good
Optional flourish is to get tiny ice tongs from the Japanese market to stop you from getting cold fingies
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