Cape Clear - island off the southern tip of Ireland (photo: G. Feldman).
At sea ~ It is a very pleasant bright day, but I am still very much under the weather, indeed I feel so miserably that I do not at all regret the approaching land. I should have done so a week ago. At noon today we were only 130 miles from Cape Clear and we are all rejoicing immensely in the prospect. This afternoon was occupied in reading “Crilla” a ridiculous book, but it was all we were fit for.
"Cape Clear Island (official name: Cléire and sometimes also referred to in Irish as 'Oileán Chléire') lies south west of County Cork in Ireland. It is the southernmost inhabited part of Ireland and has a population of over 100 people. Officially it is a Gaeltacht (Irish speaking area) but only a minority of the population are now native speakers of the language which has been largely supplanted as a community language by English." (source: Wikipedia)
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