The day we drove to the Dingle Peninsula started out very foggy and cloudy. This is on the way up to the Connor Pass.
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Lots of lakes in this area.
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At one point where you could pull over we saw people scrambling up the mountain, so we went too. I think this mountain is called "Slievanea".
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As we climbed we followed a stream.
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At the top of the stream, near the top of the mountain, was a lake
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More of the lake.
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A bog was next to the lake.
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Sue next to the lake. You can see how close it was to the top of the mountain here.
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Looking down from the lake.
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Dingle was on the other side of the pass. Here's a dead tree in Dingle that somebody carved.
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Dingle is a cute town. Then again, about 90% of the towns in Ireland are cute.
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There are some prehistoric beehive huts on the dingle peninsula. These are huts people made by piling rocks together. They were built from pre-Celtic times through the early Christian era.
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Looking up from inside a beehive hut. Looks like this one wouldn't keep out the rain very well, but maybe it was in better shape a few thousand years ago.
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Me in the complex of beehive huts and walls.
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At a beach at the tip of the Dingle peninsula. Those are the Blasket Islands in front of me, the Westernmost part of Ireland.
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People were surfing and kayaking here.
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There was a cliff with a cave at the back of this beach. That's Sue in front of the cave.
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This rock was covered in mussels, barnacles, limpets, etc.
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A pool at the back of the beach.
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A strange series of hills along the edge of the peninsula.
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More of the Blaskets...
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...I'd like to stitch all these pictures together...
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...to make one big panorama...
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...but I don't have the software handy to do that...
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...so I guess I'll just...
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...keep them separate...
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...until I'm ready.
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This part of the peninsula was pretty rocky.
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More sheep wandering around.
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At the end of the day we found Minard Castle.
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It hasn't been kept up or repaired in any way, so it's not in great shape.
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In fact one whole wall has fallen down.
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Inside the castle.
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More of the inside of Minard Castle.
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I really liked how you can see into the castle through the collapsed walls. Like a diagram with a cutaway view.
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