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Weekend away to Terryglass on shores of Lough Derg |
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Written by Sean Stagg
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Tuesday, 25 August 2009 |
South Meath Jet Ski attend Terryglass arts festival weekend August 2009 The club spent the weekend of 21st to 23rd of August in the scenic village of Terryglass on the shores of Lough Derg. We had taken a couple of holiday cottages for the weekend some of the crew headed down on Thursday while all of the rest arrived down on Friday evening. The Terryglass arts festival was on over the weekend, which brought a plenty of people and a good buzz about the village. We toyed with the idea of heading out on the water on Friday evening decided to go out for dinner and drinks instead. We woke up to a brilliant sunny Saturday morning it wasn’t long until the fry was on and with the bellies full we headed for the marina to launch the seven skis, which had made the journey. With the Skis in the water we headed upstream towards Portumna where we stopped for a picture at the swivel bridge. On up the river then to the lock. It wasn’t long before we made Banagher with FZR’s taking the lead most of the way. We passed some protesters at the power station on the way to Shannon Bridge and we came across the Garda Rib which was on duty in Shannon Bridge for the day. We had a good chat with the Garda Crew and got some insights into their duties and the craft they use. After that we headed for Clonmacnoise where we pulled in for Lunch. After lunch we turned and headed back down stream to Terryglass. We were impressed with the amount of wakeboarding boats out on the river around Portumna and Terryglass. We had the boards with us so we spent the rest of the evening boarding. We chatted away with some of the other boaters gave some of them a go on a Ski or a tow on a wake board. We even ended up towing a cruiser back into the Marina, which had broken down. There were great activities all day based around the arts festival, which ended with an impressive fireworks display down on the marina. We finished the night up in Paddy’s bar at some early hour of the morning. It was a wet day on Sunday so that along with the heads being a bit sore led us to passing up on the planned run down the lake. Not to worry as we all agreed it was a great weekend and we will be heading down again for the festival in 2010.
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