Nimmo's Pier
Stone breakwater on the bay, a winter gull-watching spot with views to the open sea and shore birds.
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This audio guide to Nimmo's Pier in Galway follows the people who come out here in midwinter with telescopes, scanning the gull flocks for one particular visitor from the far north. It also reaches back to the eighteen-twenties and Alexander Nimmo, the Scottish engineer who built this breakwater for fishing boats, not birdwatchers. Best heard at the end of the pier with the bay in front of you, ideally on a winter day.
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