This is the Ireland of your dreams:- lakes, mountains, pretty cottages, fast-flowing streams.

Connemara is an area within the County of Galway famed for its wild landscape. The mountains are bleak and beautiful. The coast is ragged and the beaches, some say, are the prettiest you'll ever see. The landscape is also enhanced by a lacework pattern of small lakes. The sunsets can be spectacular and on some days the cloud formation, awe-inspiring.

The Atlantic salmon and the sea trout are the fish aristocrats that make Ireland's inland waters famous. Both come up from the ocean into the rivers and lakes to lay their eggs and are strong fighters. Many salmon weigh from 10 to 20 pounds but a prize fish may go 40 pounds or more.
The sea trout are smaller, seldom reaching five pounds in weight.

Among the waterfowl, the common mallard and a teal nest and stay the year round. The pochard is a diving duck like our scaup. A gallinule called a water hen, the woodcock and snipe are found on the wetlands. In autumn, flocks of pink-footed geese and grey lag geese migrate in from Iceland and Arctic regions to spend the winter feeding in the countryside.