In Praise of Limestone

Another one of Inisheer. Here we see some of the characteristic limestone formations that are also found in the stupendous Burren, which are on the mainland, just a few miles across the bay.

"... but when I try to imagine a faultless love
Or the life to come, what I hear is the murmur
Of underground streams, what I see is a limestone landscape."

(W.H. Auden, 1948)