I am sitting outside Jacob’s Bar in the buzzing village of Baltimore, West Cork. Even late in September, the pier is teeming with tourists, who gather to enjoy a pint or fish and chips, the pleasure for some tempered by the scavenging of ridiculously cute resident cocker spaniel, Rosie.
Many others come, like me, hoping for a Moby Dick moment at sea. The demand provides livelihoods for marine tourism operators, like Nic Slocum and Michael Cottrell, though hundreds more jobs are created from its knock-on effect of drawing people to an area with “some of the best whale watching in Europe” as Michael says…
Independent.ie 21/09/2014 Read the article ‘Fish farms could turn tide for West Cork tourism‘
