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Lettermacaward, County Donegal, Ireland
The river Gweebarra is a 20 mile stretch of river which starts flowing from Lough Barra deep in the Derryveagh mountains. From around halfway this mountainous river water gradually becomes estuarine water. This is where freshwater meets and mixes with salt water from the ocean, which is pushed up the river estuary inland for miles during each high tide.
This estuarine river creates brackish water around the mouth of the bay. What I love about the area around the Gweebarra Bridge is that you can clearly see where both water types collide and mix into one. The fresh brownish tainted bogland river water suddenly meets the clear blue salt waters of the Atlantic Sea, creating a river of two different colours which I find fascinating to whiteness
This really shows and proves how connected our waterways and our oceans truly are. Anything deposited into these lakes, streams and rivers even 20 miles inland from the shore will gradually flow and find its way out to sea. I hope it's only peat and natural minerals that make their way along our rivers in future and nothing man-made 💚
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