Dublin Bay with Eanna Ni Lamhna
Ramblings
BBC
4.5 • 768 Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2012
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Clare Balding continues her series of wildlife walks with a visit to the Irish Coast.
Today it's "Ramblings reunited", as she is joined again by Irish naturalist and broadcaster Eanna Ni Lamhna and her husband John Harding. Clare Balding last walked with her on a 'holiday hike' in the Wicklow mountains in September 2002. Today expert naturalist and broadcaster Eanna, takes her on a beautiful tour of the diverse wildlife havens of her home city, Dublin.
They dig for lugworms and talk Ulysses in Sandymount strand. They discover the unlikely winter stopover of flocks of thousands of Brent geese - Fontenoy Football Club (the geese have a taste for the well mown turf!)
On they walk to Ringsend Nature Reserve. In this a wonderful elevated wooded area, built on reclaimed builders rubble, they find a haven for linnets, goldfinches, blackbirds, wrens, curlews and egrets in the surrounded by wonderful views of the Dublin mountains and city spires.
As they walk, they revisit their walk, conversations and friendship built in the rainy Wicklow Mountains ten years ago, and explore how much their lives, and their walks, have changed since Clare's last visit.
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| 0:47.7 | Now, 10 years ago, I came to Ireland and I walked in the Wicklow Mountains with the |
| 0:52.8 | botanist and broadcaster, Aena Nilauna. |
| 0:55.9 | And I remember it incredibly clearly because it was an extraordinary walk. |
| 1:01.1 | It was a very energetic walk, but we saw so many things along the way. |
| 1:06.3 | But what I remember more than anything, Aena, is you telling me the story of how you fell in love with your |
| 1:11.2 | husband, John. It really touched me at the time, and I sort of thought about it ever since. |
| 1:16.2 | Really? Yeah. That's very interesting indeed. I just loved the thing that you, he was this |
| 1:20.4 | great hunk of a man, and you actually took up walking or more strenuous walking, really to impress him. |
| 1:25.7 | And then he went to save a friend of yours from the waterfall and you looked at him |
| 1:29.4 | and went oh I don't want him to get hurt |
| 1:30.7 | that's right that's true yes we were climbing up the mountains |
| 1:33.4 | we were in fact going to climb |
| 1:34.6 | lugnukhila which is the third highest |
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