Monday, July 27, 1998
Bantry to Killarny
Karen’s Birthday 55
9:00 Lvg High Fields – couldn’t eat bfst – except hot cereal (porridge)
9:10 Doing Beara Peninsula overlooking Bantry Bay – lots of new houses
10:00 To Healy Pass – Rt 574 – Basalt mts – vistas – narrow road – crew working on washouts – seitchback – Dafvid lost normal lens for Canon – Windy – green meadows – sheep – no road protection – no one lives on area.
10:55 Shrine & white bridge at pass
11:00 Glenmore Lanke with sea beyond – misty – German from Frankfort touring. Waterfall video – David collected butterwort & fern.
12:05 – View of Iverayh Peninsula (Ring of Kerry)
12:25 Kenmare River – Bay (Fishing rights defined by whether it’s a Bay or River) Kenmare – David bot Karen a “sheep” for birthday £12.50 – Playing Irish CD
12:48 N71 over part of Ring of Kerry route – Macgillach mts – l – higher 2,700 ft.
1:00 Killarney Natl Pk – Upper Lake
1:20 Along Muckross Lake – Torc waterfall
1:25 Muckross Farams & House – Lunch – Lake – Garden – Toured house & David & Karen did gardens – I was too tired to do them or farm – Jaunting carts could have taken us.
4:20 Lvg
4:30 Flesk Lodge by Flesk RV – Trella nap until 7:00 – David & Karen to Killarny – shop & dinner – back at 8:30 – Trella hadd tea & cakes & read paper in lounge.