The Dingle Peninsula

This morning we set off to explore another beautiful section of the southwest coast of Ireland--the Dingle Peninsula! The weather was not quite as lovely as it was yesterday and so some of the potentially stunning views were covered in clouds but it was worth it just the same. We started our drive out of Killarney and made our first stop at Inch Beach where, unfortunately, there was no surfing...

I'm sure someone, somewhere would have ventured out into those crazy waves but we, uh, forgot our wetsuits. No matter! We explored the beach instead and Jonathan and Christopher found the shells that were missing from Kells Beach yesterday...

It started raining a little harder so we headed to the car and set off for the town of Dingle, where we had a delicious lunch at John Benny's pub...

We very briefly stopped to take a picture at the dolphin statue (again, a picture I took back in 2000) and ran fast to the car before we got blown away!

After leaving Dingle, we took the Slea Head Loop around the end of the peninsula which was beautiful, even when covered in fog and rain. We traveled on some harrowing roads that were narrow, steep and essentially on the edge of a cliff, but I'm here writing about it which means it all turned out okay. Because of the rain, we stayed in the car. My only regret from these two drives is that I didn't get a close up picture of sheep. God knows there were a ton of them! There is always tomorrow I guess! It was a fun day though and we ended the day back in Killarney. After relaxing in front of the fireplace, we watched some more dancing (after realizing that one of the stages for All Ireland's was in the hotel right behind ours!) and had dinner in town at a western themed restaurant that had all kinds of vegetarian options yay!