Unlike a sure Virgin Media TV advert, walruses don’t clamber on board speedboats and roar off jetties to the sound of Billy Ocean’s crooning .
No, siree, they will sink them, as Wally the Walrus proved right here at Dunnycove close to West Cork’s Clonakilty again in summer season 2021: The scenic spot surfaced as a part of the younger male walrus’s five-month Western European tour of destruction, and worldwide media monitoring, with at the very least 17 confirmed sightings on his 2,500 mile+ meander.
Some tallies recommend that within the absence of ice floes to relaxation up on, the chunky younger and tusked male Wally broken or sank as much as a dozen small craft as he cruised astray from the Arctic circle to Valentia in Kerry, Wales, Spain, France, the Scilly Isles, Waterford, and West Cork, earlier than going with the floe again to the chilly north, by way of Iceland.
A nonetheless from an advert for Virgin Media TV that includes a walrus piloting a speedboat
Woebegone Wally’s wildlife travels and travails impressed at the very least one guide, translated as by Dutch writer Irwan Droog, and absolutely additionally supplied the spark for the uplifting TV speedboat advert too?
However, Wally did the other of uplifting at Dunnycove, remembers the proprietor of this 1,315 sq ft bungalow with its most expansive sea views, over crystal clear water and caves: trying to relaxation up his weary bones and 800kg of blubber (he was the mixed weight of a rowing crew of eight males): As was his wont, he sank a fairly swanky speedboat simply beneath her dwelling 5 summers in the past (it by no means sped once more).
The Arctic Walrus, which individuals have named Wally, has been noticed once more in West Cork, this time in Crookhaven. The walrus is drawing a giant crowd of onlookers. Picture: Andy Gibson.
People try and coax Wally the arctic walrus from a speedboat it was resting in, to a inexpensive rib craft, at Crookhaven, Co. Cork. Picture: Niall Carson
Originally from Northern Ireland, and herself a seasoned world traveller with a long time of wanderlust earlier than settling within the Clonakilty space the place she ran a store, she purchased this indifferent Nineteen Sixties construct from a schoolteacher 38 years in the past as a vacation base.
Later, she moved into it full-time, extending and adapting it and creating two good-size bedrooms (one is en suite), whereas by no means tiring of the views as “they are different every day and in every weather.”
Charlie the Seal is a daily, as are basking sharks, she provides, however by no means in her wildest goals and lots of wildlife encounters thought a walrus would make waves and rock the boat on her vista-scanning doorstep.
Upping sticks now to maneuver to Clonkilty city, her well-tended dwelling on a 3rd of an acre up steps or a steep drive from the leafy cul de sac lane to a sandy swimming spot referred to as Dunnycove and its (slippery) slip has a €675,000 AMV with agent Mark Kelly of Hodnett Forde.
Mr Kelly describes the lodging as “flexible,” as it may be divided in two with two entry factors, has three bedrooms (2+1), three loos, with two dwelling areas with stoves and two fitted kitchens.
The 0.3 acre web site could have additional extension/improve potential and at present features a tall workshed in outdated corrugated metal (like an outdated Aussie dunny?!) with distracting views from its east-facing entrance window.
Location is close to Ardfield village and its just lately reopened pub and restaurant, The Mountain, with quite a few seashores and different hardly ever visited coves shut at hand, or to fin.
: Cracking setting and supreme for morning dips, and full with lofty studio, parking and bike shed, this one-off dwelling’s elevated seaside setting alone is sure to drift some purchaser’s boat.
