Castlegregory back to Camp

 Okay sorry for the delay….and thanks to Ross for spurring me on to finish these posts.  It’s nice to know I have one loyal follower, and thanks for sharing your sweet wife w me for another hiking holiday.  She is the best hiking partner and a very fun, lovable human being and we’ve made some more great memories again this year.




We are short on photos of this last day on the trail partly due to being tired from our big night in Castlegregory and partly due to it being a short, fairly uneventful leg of the journey.  The photo on the beach was a fishing club competition to catch very small fish that they had to release back and they weren’t allowed to jig.  Made no sense to us but they certainly were a motivated bunch.  Their bate was a small fish cut into small pieces and earthworms.  We met a grampa, son and grandson on the beach near by.  The little boys name was Finnbar and he was a serious little guy.  Anyway they were from Cork and holiday in this area every year.

We hiked up to a nice little bakery in the town of camp called Annie’s, just like our Annie.  Anyways highly recommend this spot for lunch or breakfast if you are ever travelling past the town of camp.  We then headed to Fitzgeralds for their amazing goat cheese salad before retiring early.  Notes: today was a no OH day for me, the first one of the trip.  🤭. I kind of picked a bad day for it as we finished our hike but told Barb i would save the celeb for Killarney.  Today we walked only 13 km and an elevation of 60 metres in elevation, mostly climbing up to Annie’s coffee house and bar, in the town of camp.


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