Leaving Camp Juction B&B off to Annascaul. Day 2 on Dingle Way.
This stream early in the day was such a pretty spot and the video is pretty funny- she’s not that bossy normally lol.
We came across the cutest pair of lambs here and I’m pretty sure this is the range of the farmer I was chatting to the night before. Annie and Stetley will get a kick out of these two.
We had a couple cheese and crackers here and barb cleaned her boots a bit inside and out lol. Turns out she’s a sheep sh. magnet.
Over the main range w Inch Beach in the background.
Beaches and grassers in the same photo- loved that and they seemed to take a liking to Barb. We saw quite a few Holstein/Angus steers in this region that farmers utilize for their extra grass.
Tom Crean was serving in the Navy in New Zealand when he saw this ad.
The fellows in the bar last night recommended the South Pole Inn as our base camp for this evening. We stumbled in at 2 pm and enjoyed a lager from Tom Crean’s granddaughter’s micro brewery. The place was filled w info on his 3expeditions to the South Pole and I’d seen an art exhibition depicting the one expedition at the Aukland Museum in January this year so it was very cool to be in his home town in the pub he owned for years after retiring from the sea and the South Pole . He was born in 1877 in Cork but grew up in Annascaul and returned for his retirement. He married in 1917 after his shenanigans and opened the South Pole Inn in 1920. They together had 3 daughters. The pub was ransacked about the same time during the war of independence. And his brother was killed during an IRA ambush. He died at 61 from a burst appendix. His wife ran the pub until 1953 when it was sold. He was one handsome tough fella.
Barb doing some stretches on our second spot next to our Bnb. Dan Foleys was a great spot as well and served Dingle Gin - nice post hike bevy after the lager.
Today was 19 km and 184 metres in elevation gain.
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