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Less than four miles southwest of Skibbereen along the Baltimore Road, the Creagh Gardens (March-Oct 10am-6pm; GBP3/3.81) are a delightful place to unwind. They are ostensibly traditional - with woodland glades, lawns running down to the estuary and a Regency walled kitchen garden - but the late owner's desire to create a garden based on the richness of tone and colour found in Rousseau's jungle paintings was less conventional and is achieved here by a dense, textured build-up of lush vegetation and exotic palms. If you head back a little way up the road and take the turning on your right, you'll soon find Lough Hyne (pronounced Ine ), a land-locked salt lake, linked to the ocean only by a very slender channel down which the receding tide returns to the sea. The lough, surrounded by hillsides dripping with lush, moist greenery, is a unique phenomenon, of great interest to marine biologists . From the head of the lake steep slopes, easily climbed, rise to panoramic views: eastwards along the coast to Kinsale, west across the length of the Mizen Peninsula, and out across to Sherkin and Clear islands.
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