These words taken from Des Lavelle's unique book:
This stark, beautiful, precious environment - the Washerwomen Rocks,
Skellig Michael and Small Skellig - must be protected and conserved for
the next generations: it is truly a piece of heaven on Earth.
Once inhabited by monks, Vikings, priests, supernatural....as one gets
to know the soul of Skellig it becomes easier to accept fact as fiction,
and fiction as fact, and to be quite uninclined to attempt to probe the
grey line between the two.
Des Lavelle,
THE SKELLIG STORY
Ancient Monastic Outpost
The O'Brien Press
Dublin
Des Lavelle of Valentia, County Kerry, Ireland - seaman, photographer,
diving instructor, author, with his venerable boat, the Béal
Bocht - has guided many thousands of visitors to the Skelligs. His
photographs and texts also form the core of the Skellig Experience
Visitor Centre on Valentia.
