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Date: 30 June 2008
There is now a Saltee Islands 2009 Calendar available. This Calendar is a fundraising project for Our Ladys Hospital for Sick Children, Crumlin and it contains a series of photographs of the Great Saltee, anyone interested in same can contact me at tmhinchy@eircom.net.
See Island News Page for further information |
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Date: 23 June 2008
Thank you for letting us access such a wonderful region. Darragh |
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Date: 15 June 2008
Wexford Camera Club spent the day on the Island on the 15th June 08
and had a wonderful time. Thanks. |
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Date: 3 June 2008 Island was excellent, 01 May 2008, with many Birds. Website really top class. Vincent McMahon
Oberland Tivoli Estate Cork |
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Date: 24 May 2008 AN ENGLISHMAN NOW LIVING IN IRELAND (CARNE CO WEXFORD) EVERYONE WITH ANY INTEREST IN THE OUTDOORS SHOULD MAKE THE EFFORT IN SPRING & AUTUMN ,TAKE A FEW HOURS OUT OF YOUR LIFE. AMAZING TOM P |
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Date: 24 March 2008
What a wonderful place We saw
the birds and seals and so enjoyed the trip. Just an amazing
experience |
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Date: 18 March 2008 Hello We would like to go out and
see the birds. Mainly the puffins. Who do I e-mail to make
reservations to go out by boat and stay for the afternoon then go
back? I read the boat goes out at 11am and returns 14:00. Jeanette |
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Date: 14 March 2008
Your website is very interesting. I read about the islands in a
guide book and definitely plan to visit early May, 2008. The website
is so informative regarding the history of the island. I am looking
forward to our visit. |
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Date: 12 March 2008 Like many other visitors to your site, I just “googled” Saltee Islands, expecting to see may be a map and couple of photos. BUT NO, I DID NOT get a couple of pictures and a map: I got a fully fledged, detailed, and extremely interesting website on the Islands. Congratulations and many thanks to respect your father Michael the First wish and share virtually and in real life this magnificent place with the rest of the world. I am a French man married to a Galwaygian woman and leave in Enniscorthy for the last 15 years. We have friends in Kilmore Quay and often enjoyed a delicious Crab Morney in Kehoe’s. I also love photography and have just bought a 5 m. (5 persons) boat. This is the reason why I “googled” the Saltees. Looking at your website has tremendously increased my desire to visit your islands. I can not wait to get delivery of my boat and get some fine weather to try the crossing. The only thing your website made me even more worried about the crossing, looking at the list of wrecks lying around of the Islands. I would not like to be the next entry on the list. Is a small speed boat with an outboard engine, OK to go to the Islands??? Do I need to go with someone very experienced ? Or is this OK with some precautions, depth finder, local knowledge, (obviously good sea and weather conditions)…Where and which Island is the best to land on ?Is it better at high tide or low tide??? Could you please advise me. My parents are visiting from France from the 22/03/08 to the 12/04/08, and I will love them to visit your Island. Thank you again to the Neale family for your effort and willingness to share your “Treasure” (Island) and well done for your very educational, clear website. I have myself developed couple of website for my company and for some friends and know the work it is involved. Looking forward to read you soon and/or visit your Island. I will hopefully forward you shortly some photos of the Islands. Best regards, Christophe Aucher |
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Date: 14 January 2008 Thank you for your magnificent website, which lets me "visit" from California. I look forward to visiting someday, and am grateful to the Neale family. Having just read Airman, I suspect your web site will have many visitors in the near future. Thank you again. I went to the internet hoping to find a map, and was stunned at the beauty & thoroughness of your web site... and the islands themselves. - Amy G. |
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Date: 12 January 2008 I enjoyed your web site. Very comprehensive. I would like, very much, to visit your islands. Kind Regards, Steve Borgwardt |
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Date: 21 September 2007 Very many thanks for permission to stay on Great Saltee. My son Cian and I had a very enjoyable week, with a mix of sun and cloud, winds never above force 4, and only ten minutes of drizzle at dawn one day. Bird migration was not particularly heavy (too much wind from the north) but we saw 63 different species, and ringed 180 birds, mostly Willow Warblers, Chiffchaffs and Goldcrests. Several unusual species turned up: a pair of Gadwall, a Spotted Redshank, a Hen Harrier seen coming in off the sea from the east, an Arctic Skua, a Yellow Wagtail and two Garden Warblers. And there was a very strange leucistic Gannet chick on the Makestone -- the colour of Rich Tea biscuits! Apparently only one previous record of this colour phase, at a Scottish colony in 1973. About 60% of the Gannet chicks had fledged, though there were still some with white down, which won't go until mid-October. Besides the birds, we saw a Minke Whale and six dolphins passing by, and the Grey Seals had produced their first eight pups of the season. Quite a lot of migrant Red Admiral and Painted Lady butterflies, and up to twelve Migrant Hawker dragonflies per day. These were first recorded in Ireland in 2000 and are now established along the southeast coast. Actually, we started to see them on Great Saltee in 1998, two years before they were "officially" recorded in Ireland! Kind regards Oscar Merne |
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Date: 22 August 2007
We visited the Great Saltee yesterday in the company of some friends
and had a picnic. It was a magnificent day, one of the few this
summer, and the island, wildlife and surrounding waters were at the
their best. The Neale family deserve great praise for making such a
wonderful amenity available to the public |
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Date:
22 July 2007 Hugh
Barry & Crew of yacht Pure Magic. Super website & we had a super day
on your island. |
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Date: 9 July 2007
Colm and Gillian OBrien. |
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Date: 27 Oct 2006 Twenty years ago I had the pleasure of visiting the Saltees. Your website brought back some wonderful memories. Thank you |
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Date: 24 Oct 2006 Came across your site whilst browsing the web. Spent a great day on your Island last Summer. A must for all tourists !! Thank you for allowing visitors to a beautiful Island. Jon & Ann Kirkwood Port Douglas Australia |
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Date: 22 Oct 2006
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Date: 20 Oct 2006 Joan and Albert Rance spent one splendid afternoon on the islands, majestic scenery and hospitality. The fish enjoyed Joans contribution also.
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Date: 14 Oct 2006 Your web page is not good its magnificent and as I do my daughters web page not as proficiently as yours, I would request you permission to make links to your page as from my Saltee Information Page on the Guest House Page and also on the Community Page www.kilmorequayweb.com. I will go ahead and link and I trust you will not mind, it has been a sore point for a long time that the most visually important seascape off Kilmore Quay had no decent links. Best Wishes Mick Maguire
Quay Guest House Kilmore Quay.
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Date: 10 Oct 2006 What a fantastic place, beautiful! Mark, UK |
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Date: 08 Oct 2006 |
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