Pre-takeoff
Post curb hit... Still works!
Lucky Charms
This cat rules
Victory
Looks like a good spot to take pics... I mean hike for 3 hours
Initial view of the lake...
Guinness water
Muddy hiking trail... more to follow
We made it to the lake! Continue?
Continuing around... notice the steepness of the hill across...
Billy goats gruff
Last picture on easy part of hike... Notice how I don't take any on the steepest part in fear of falling
We made it to the top!
Crazy rock up top
Our car is on that road in the middle...
Really high
Good stuff
I may have slipped and muddied up my jeans and jacket on the first day
...and we made the entire loop up and around. Amazing.
'nuff said
Charles' Fort, Kinsale
Showers and changing clothes = overrated
Sea gunk
Ancient stone circle... and Mark hiding behind it
Burren
Crazy
Good work Yaris
Michael Phelps pose
Stone igloos
Check out the Billy goats up on the right
Mark failing at scaring the sheep
We took a ferry with the car
Cliffs of Moher
The neverending stream - wind blows it up, gravity pulls it back down
Old rock that supposedly has lines from worms and such thousands of years ago
My aunt stayed here 5 years ago!?
Portal stone in Burren
With our trusty Rick Steeves book
Er... what
Old abbey in Cong
Ok so it wasn't just broken... it's supposed to be there
Roads are really wide
5000 year old rock mounds at Knowth and Newgrange
Sun shines through the higher hole to the center every winter solstice
Hard to see, but the route we took is highlighted in yellow with the places we slept at colored in pen. Try zooming in.
