The peninsula which juts out into Dublin Bay was full of walkers, cyclists and joggers and on the way around great views over South Dublin were had.
The view here is looking over Sandymount Strand - mentioned in James Joyce's Ulysses twice with its 'greengoldenly lagoons of sand' - with the Dublin Mountains and Sugarloaf in Wicklow visible in the background.
Irishtown Nature Reserve and Sandymount Strand were formed after the building of the South Bull Wall, at the time of its completion in 1795, the longest sea wall in the World.
The Sandymount swimming baths, built in 1883, are visible in this image and the strand is popular with walkers- particularly on a hot day.
The low-lying nature of the strand means that the tide retreats and advances quickly, creating large expanses of sand. "Am I walking into eternity along Sandymount strand?" ponders Stephen Dedalus in Ulysses; many visitors to the strand get stranded by the quick, incoming tide that sees dog-walkers, horse-riders, bait-seekers and kite-surfers on a daily basis.
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