Walking or cycling down to St. Brendan’s Well and Culoo Rock is a pretty exposed journey. But if you’re lucky you may hear a distant thunderous sound on the way down. Except there may not be any thunderstorms around. Instead you’ll find Atlantic waves battering Culoo Rock – a rocky stretch of coast along Valentia Island‘s north shores.

I went there primarily to find one of the other exposures of tetrapod footprints. However, rocks from various storms had covered the supposed site and so, I gave up on that search. Instead I hung around to enjoy the spectacle!

The main splash in the video is about 10 metres tall.

References:

https://www.activeme.ie/guides/coloo-rock/

https://www.discoveriveragh.ie

Stössel, I., Williams E. A. & Higgs K. T., 2016. Ichnology and depositional environment of the Middle Devonian Valentia Island tetrapod trackways, south-west Ireland. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Vol. 462, pp. 16-1490. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.08.033.