A lot of people, including myself, are making a four-day weekend out of the St. Patrick’s Day break, and I decided to start by getting up early for sunrise this morning. The sky over Salthill at 6.30 this morning was beautiful, and I decided to take a few pictures by the diving board. While I was there, I noticed that there was a girl skinny-dipping in the sea (she wasn’t easy to ignore due to her squeals of anguish at the sea temperature).
About twenty minutes later, a group of exuberant youngsters ( mainly French students, I think) arrived at the diving board, determined to skinny-dip too. Actually, most of them didn’t make it into the sea, but about fifteen of them posed naked on top of the diving board and asked me to take a few snaps, since I was there. Nudity, photography and the internet are not always the wisest combination, so I’ll just post these pictures here (which are the only ones where everyone is facing away from the camera). You can still see their best attributes – their admirable lack of shyness.
Actually, neither the gorgeous sunrise nor the abundance of naked young people was the most amazing sight this morning. Just as everyone was getting dressed and milling about the changing area, an otter scuttled across the rocks by the board and slid back into the sea – it had obviously been there during the entire escapade, unnoticed and unfazed.