What is your favorite place to go in your city?
Luckily I live only a mile from Belfast Lough which runs from the Irish Sea into the harbour in Belfast City.
No matter the weather I love to drive down and walk along the coastline.
Each walk is different depending on whether the tide is in our out, whether it’s raining or the sun shining.
Time of year determines what birds will be on the water’s edge. Heron gulls, oyster catchers, cormorants, dunlins and greylag geese are some of the most common. Very entertaining to watch the cormorants diving for fish and the gulls flying high and dropping their shells on the rocks to open them. If I’m lucky there will be the occasional crane or egret.
Walking closer to sunset the light is glorious over the Cave Hill as the sun sinks into the west.
Definitely my favourite place in Belfast city.
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