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Hillwalk Tours Overview From Glenbeigh, you have the option to visit beautiful Rossbeigh Strand and dip you toes into the waters of Dingle Bay. From there, country roads and an old coach path take you around Drung Hill, with wide views across the bay and the Dingle peninsula. Pass above an old railway viaduct before the trail descends over wild moorland into the Ferta River valley and continues on tracks and country roads towards Foilmore, near the town of Cahersiveen. |
Daily Information
Distance: 19.9 Kms [72.5 Kms]
Walking time: 4h 11m [15h 48m]
Avg walking speed: 4.7 Kms/hr [4.6 Kms/hr]
Elevation G/L meters: 414:(408) [1,503:(1,542))]
Total Daily Steps: 26,078 [96,208]
Again words fail…likely the finest walking ever over ~ 45 minute stretch AND the scariest 5 minutes or so of my short life. There was also a decent amount of elevation gain so the heart was pumping today. Oh and did I mention the sun ☀️ was shining again brightly today…false news about rain ☔️ in Ireland! Come on down it…sunny skies await!
Breakfast as usual was superb and it was grand. Now I invite anyone reading this…if anyone is… to spot the differences between today’s breakfast and yesterday’s 🤔😂. Don’t get to fussed up about it as I must have food pictures 😉
Now the day got off to a rousing start today with the shuttle ride back to Glenbeigh where we walked to yesterday.
John L (Kerry Way walk friend) and John M (shuttle driver) were having an incredible non stop back and forth amicable exchange of information. I was desperately trying to follow in the backseat however the Irish accents and brogue are killing me 😂.
I pick up John M “Yeah that building in Glenbeigh is empty” to which John L says something like “shame they don’t even fix it up” knowing full well this will trigger more and more comments. Both John’s are thoroughly enjoying the back and forth and I am smiling knowing full well John L (detective , home improvement specialist, sheep connoisseur, map & compass expert) is egging on John M.
Then the local murder of a farmer…clearly a serious matter for both men. At least two theories were banded about. My walking friend John will keep me informed post Kerry Way walk!
Yesterday I commented on my first Guinness…it is quite the process to receive this beverage. I went to the bar and ordered 2 Guinness (Terry and me) and an Orchard Thieves cider for John.
On a tray in front of me are placed two light milk chocolate coloured beverages and a dark one. I go to take the dark one to our table as that has to be the Guinness and restate my order as a mistake has to have been made. No the dark one is for someone else and the light brown ones are my Guinness.
WHAT? It turns out the Guinness must settle allowing the air bubbles to escape THEN it turns dark! Ok I come back and the two beers are dark however odd that they are not filled to the top. I start to take them however “no we must top them up” I then leave for a while and come back to two 100% Guinness filled to the brim glasses with a very nice foam top.
Now I gingerly made my way to Terry and John desperately trying to not spill anything…ok maybe leaving a little trail behind me 😢. Michael at the Inn later related a story about the Guinness inspectors who show up similar to Michelin Restaurant food critics. This is serious business!!!
A short while after the start of our walk we came upon the Fairy Forest which was fun…
Sometime later we stopped as I wanted to take a picture…pulled out my phone and my life flashed in front of me.
In red letters “You have 7 failed attempts to enter your password. Next time available is in 3 minutes”
This happened to me on my PEI Island Walk…a desperately frightening experience. I managed to get out of that one however this one is much much worse. I may well be royally screwed as my iPhone will be locked 😥 if this isn’t solved!
I blab this to John and we agree to wait the 3 minutes…I give John updates every minute…he is cool and patient.
Three minutes are up…I enter the correct password and d*mn “You have 8 failed attempts to enter your password. Next time available is in 15 minutes”
Unsure what to do I simply say “let’s walk”. I am really feeling “I am up a creek here”. I then noticed a cancel button and in desperation hit cancel.
Miraculously all comes back to normal…I have no idea what happened..I aged 20 years in 5 minutes. System Architects please speak up as to why this was necessary!!!
The highlight of the day and I think the best 45 minutes of walking ever was walking on a high exposed cliff path. Perched on the cliff trail feeling perfectly safe the view of the Atlantic waters…Dingle Peninsula in the distance…was incredible! John said the views were the equal of the Mediterranean which he and Carmel saw on the Amalfi Coast in Italy.
Pictures in no way do this walking stretch justice however here are a few. This is one walk I do not expect to ever forget!
You realize, of course, that it was probably the Systems Architect that recommended inclusion of the Cancel button to save the hapless user from himself.
ReplyDeleteThe size of the button, colour selection, hidden location on screen were chosen by the User Experience person, who would have created many graphs and charts to come up with the ideal selections.
Great comeback Greg! You never fail to come up with a good one! Having fun out here!
DeleteQuestion: why were you holding your poles above your head when you took a photo? Scaring away native wildlife while you were distracted?
ReplyDeleteWhat a neat observation anonymous! I have no idea…no dangerous animals! There is something almost supernatural about that picture…
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