Conemara Scenery

Conemara is a scenic region on the western coast of Ireland, near the Aran Islands. Water runoff due to mountain rainfall descends to low-lying coastal plains, creating vast areas of bog. Welcome to the land of peat. This area is super-green, very rocky in areas, and gorgeous. We took a bus tour through Conemara on a gorgeous sunny day (hot! yuck!) and got some nice photos.
This is a coral beach on a brackish conjoining of stream with ocean. We didn't see any living coral, but the tide was low and the rockpools were full of interesting life.
This is one of the streams that feed the bogs. It's hard to tell, but the water is brown with sediment from the bog. According to our guide, the locals' bathwater comes out of the taps this way. They attribute the same healing properties to this water that people assign to hot springs and such. Gorgeous whether brown or not:
And a peat trench with a pile of peat:
Back when peat was their only source of heat, a family would have to cut 5 tons per year in order to heat their homes and cook their food. My back hurts just thinking about it.