Killarney or bust

We left our little bed and breakfast yesterday and found a little wifi hot spot at the steps of the court house.  We were able to push some photos to the gallery.

So we went down to bus station from there.  Took the bus from Cork to Killarney.  It was about a 2 hour drive.  We made it into town about 2:30 in the afternoon.  Caught a taxi to our campground about 1.5 killometers outside of the city center.  We got our tent set up grabbed a little lunch at a little cafe by our campground, and then walked into town.

On our way to the city center we came across this little park on the side of the road that went down by the river.  They had a little windy path through flowers and bushes that ended at a bench.

We headed the rest of the way into the city center which is jam-packed with shops and pubs.  There was a big game on tv not sure exactly what its called, but its a cross between rugby and soccer.  Really fun to watch. We stopped into a little pub to watch the end of the game.  Dublin was behind and then took the lead, and at the very end the game finished with a tie.

After the game was over we headed back out on the streets to look around town.  All of a sudden coming down the street was a line of tractors.  They were raising money for cancer research.  I guess they had traveled 260 K.  They were honking their horns and followed by people with buckets for the donations.

We explored around town for another couple hours and then headed back the long hike to our campground.  We ended up eating dinner at a little restaurant adjacent to our campground.

This morning we got up and headed back to the little cafe for breakfast.  Erin had a scone and some tea.

I had a “Full Irish Breakfast” minus the pudding because well thats really not very good.

After we finished breakfast we rented bikes.  Killarney is located right on the edge of a very large National Forest.  Our ride was about 12 K long and took us around a one of the lakes in the park.

The scenery was very beautiful.  The area is surrounded by mountains and lakes.   It looks like there are a lot of hiking and biking trails you can spend some time on.  Definitely a place to visit and spend a few days if you enjoy getting out for a hike.

We kept seeing signs to this waterfall and arrows pointing in the direction to find it.  So at one point we ditched our bikes and headed up a little trail that promised the waterfall at the end.  After about 15 minutes of hiking we were brought back to the road by which we left our bikes.  So we hiked back down the road the way we had come and picked up our bikes and then biked back the way we had walked.  After a little while more of biking and about three more signs claiming the falls were this way or that we came to the actual trail head to the falls.  We ditched our bikes once again and headed up the trail.

This time we had found the correct trail and found the falls just a few hundred yards/meters up the trail.

The forests are all very green and the trees are covered in moss or little vines that climb up to the top.  It is very pretty.

Since its been so sunny the last two days I am starting to get sun burned.  I had to buy a hat so the top of my head wouldn’t get burned to a crisp.  Unfortunately Nike was my best option at the moment.

Well Its our 2nd anniversary today, and we are going to go grab some dinner.  I need to get a shower taken and maybe find some “clean” clothes so I’m somewhat presentable at the dinner table.

There are more photos up in the Ireland area of Erin’s gallery if you’d like to see them.