West Cork

Dana, Mary and I met up on Saturday morning, checked in to our hotel, and took a boat to Garnish Island. This is a beautifully landscaped island with an Italian garden. We enjoyed walking the island and had lunch at the patio of the tea room. On the boat over we saw a colony of seals.
We also saw Maureen O'Hara's house - she lives here full time now. This is her house, with the white gables. The week we were there they were holding a Maureen O'Hara Golf Tournament. As part of that, they were showing many of her films in the room across the hall from our room in the hotel! She was actually coming to "The Quiet Man" on that Sunday evening - we considered staying but decided to stick to our plans. Mary did do her exercises in the film room and thus viewed the special chair brought in for the star to occupy that night. Anyway, back to Garnish Island - it was so beautiful and we had great weather.









After exploring the little village of Glengarriff, we rested, then had dinner at a very old, traditional pub. A group of women from Cork City moved over so we could have a table - in talking to them, we found that they were lifelong friends (from preschool and/or secondary school) and were celebrating their 60th birthday year - sound familiar, like my group in OK! They had been to Italy, Spain, Kerry, and now West Cork. We joined them later at another pub - seee picture. Later still, Dana and I enjoyed music at the pub in our hotel.