Dunfanaghy Bay

The village of Dunfanaghy is fairly remote by anyone's standards, sitting as it does at almost the extreme North-Western Tip of Ireland.   It's a popular tourist spot, though, as it's surrounded by miles of unspoilt sandy beaches, as well as the Bay:

The tide was well out when we were there.  Same details as before (Pan F+, HC-110 on MG Classic paper).

Directly behind where I was standing while taking this shot was a large hotel...empty and derelict, which is rather sad.  You would think it should be possible to make money from a hotel in a place like this - with views like this - but clearly the numbers didn't add up.  It looked like it had been lying vacant for a number of years, so it's not just a Covid thing.  There are a lot of static caravan sites around this part of Donegal and I know they are popular with families, who come and stay for the whole summer.  While these big caravans/not-so-mobile homes aren't particularly cheap any more they do make sense for families - you just couldn't afford to put a family up in a hotel for the summer months at the prices they charge nowadays.  A lot of people just make the caravan their regular summer holiday...for life.  It's easy to understand why - can you imagine the stress of all that airport stuff with a clatter of weans in tow, as they say round here.