{"id":2348,"date":"2025-10-25T05:54:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T19:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/2348-rossbeigh-beach.html"},"modified":"2025-10-25T05:54:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T19:24:00","slug":"rossbeigh-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/2348-rossbeigh-beach.html","title":{"rendered":"Rossbeigh Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:3017 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"580\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/137-DJI_0984-Edit.jpg\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe drive between Mallow and Portmagee might be long, but it never fails to delight. On this day, a disappointment had a silver lining and reminded me to always bring a camera, even when I think I won\u2019t use it.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nWe had finished our first dive of the day off Portmagee, but the conditions were less than ideal. For most of the dive, I could just about make out my buddy\u2019s bright yellow fins a meter away.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nIt was a more than sensible decision to cancel the second dive, and I now found myself looking forward to driving home in the daylight and getting home early.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nJust before Glenbeigh, I took a notion to detour left, head up over the mountain, and drop down to Rossbeigh Beach via the scenic route. Wow, this countryside is stunning, and the high vantage point provided a breathtaking view of Dingle Bay and the beach below.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nRemembering that camera I\u2019d brought \u201cjust in case,\u201d I launched it and sent it far out into the bay to capture this extraordinary Irish landscape.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n#ireland #aerial #dinglebay #rossbeigh #landscape #skyscape #weather #ocean #kerry #rossbeighbeach #wildatlanticway #ringofkerry<br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The drive between Mallow and Portmagee might be long, but it never fails to delight. On this day, a disappointment had a silver lining and reminded me to always bring a camera, even when I think I won\u2019t use it. We had finished our first dive of the day off Portmagee, but the conditions were &#8230; <a title=\"Rossbeigh Beach\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/2348-rossbeigh-beach.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Rossbeigh Beach\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}