Atlantic Sanctuary

Ireland has been very good to me. I’ve made wonderful friends, gone on amazing trips, experienced the culture and settled into our little part of the country we call home away from home. The western Irish coastline in particular, with its rugged inaccessibility, spectacular waterfalls tumbling into the ocean, and of course the diving, makes being here such an adventure.

There is one place however that is very special to me for reasons spanning years and experiences, a little island off the southwest coast of Kerry called Skellig Michael.

In 2017, we brought our dearest Australian friends to Ireland with us and together we discovered Skellig Michael while exploring the Wild Atlantic Way. In 2024, having been here only a few months, I got a call from Mike, the nephew of a friend who I’d never met, inviting me to come for a dive. That weekend I was taken beneath the waters of Skellig Michael for my first dive in Ireland.

I have been out here many times now and feel so at home in the ocean beneath those towering cliffs, or capturing a gannet’s-eye view from above. From the waterline I often find myself looking up at the ancient structures perched on top and imagining how crazy we would have seemed to the monks of St Fionan who once called this Atlantic sanctuary their home.


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