{"id":1061,"date":"2018-04-15T10:05:55","date_gmt":"2018-04-15T10:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrishankey-artist.com\/?p=1061"},"modified":"2018-04-15T10:07:01","modified_gmt":"2018-04-15T10:07:01","slug":"caherdaniel-to-cahersiveen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chrishankey-artist.com\/index.php\/2018\/04\/15\/caherdaniel-to-cahersiveen\/","title":{"rendered":"Caherdaniel to Cahersiveen"},"content":{"rendered":"

This was another extraordinary ride. We visited Valentia Island in search of some 385 million year old fossil tracks and found them. What struck me most was that 385 million years ago this creature left it’s footprints leaving water and walking in soft mud, and 385 million years later this creatures footprints are still by the water…..though now in a different part of the world. It was amazing sitting there contemplating that amount of time…..<\/p>\n

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On our way to see the Tetrapod tracks on Valentia Island<\/p>\n

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Just above the 385 million year old Tetrapod track on Valentia Island. Not only can you see the footprints but it’s tail drag can also be seen.<\/p>\n

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This is the oldest in situ fossil record of a Tetrpod, this is an ancestor of all land animals……before this all vertebrates were fish. What an incredible place, and what a wonderful humbling experience to visit this extraordinary place…..<\/p>\n

On the way to Cahersiveen we passed through a place called waterville. where Charlie Chaplin used to go on holiday and there is a film festival at Waterville every year……due to continual storms and fierce head winds we missed out on this…..but that is Ok we want to go back. and just before we came into Waterville we passed this ancient site…..we tried to get closer but no matter which way we went there seems to be no public access which was quite disappointing….ah well can’t have everything…..<\/p>\n

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And at the end of the day a sunset and our camp, by the sea<\/p>\n

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This was another extraordinary ride. We visited Valentia Island in search of some 385 million year old fossil tracks and found them. What struck me most was that 385 million years ago this creature left it’s footprints leaving water and walking in soft mud, and 385 million years later this creatures footprints are still by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrishankey-artist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrishankey-artist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrishankey-artist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrishankey-artist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrishankey-artist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1061"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/chrishankey-artist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1073,"href":"https:\/\/chrishankey-artist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions\/1073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrishankey-artist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrishankey-artist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrishankey-artist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}