Forget the Beacon, forget Lough Hyne (however you spell it), the place to be on a sunny afternoon is pierside, watching the diggers. For your viewing pleasure, there are two projects that you can alternate between: the new Slipway (which only gets worked on at low tide) and the Smushing Up of the Wrecks (which also pauses occasionally - for example, when they realise that they haven't thought to put any protective barrier around the smushing area, and there's bits of boat drifting off to become Area Rubbish).
Locally, it's all the rage, but there was surprise when the Smushing digger attraction featured on the news last night - both the 6pm and the 9pm - in the midst of reports on worldwide calamities and rising death tolls. This afternoon in Bushes, discussion of the interviews was... colourful.
I passed by on Sunday, made my way between the parked cars filled with people, watching the work in progress as though it was a sunset. And in a way, I guess it was...
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