Fenit and Guaguan Berra

On the Saturday after our trip to Thurles, we made a visit to Fenit for the first annual Fenit Sea Breeze Festival. We went specifically for an advertised "Eco-Walk" with Frank King, the "bird man" on Kerry radio. It turned out we were the only takers - so he was pleased to see us! (The main events catered to the younger crowd, as you'll see later). He said it was the wrong time of year for birds, but... oh well. He knew lots about birds and all flora and fauna and was a pleasure to be with.

The big interest events were bungee jumping on the pier and the hamster run (that's this ball with a kid inside being pulled around the shallow part of the bay). There was also a cheese stall with our friend Maia from last year's cheese making in Castlegregory, so that was fun. A later event was the "All-Ireland Stone Skipping Contest" - 1st annual I think! We missed it, but did see some enterprising local youngsters selling bags of "perfect skipping stones"!
And we ran into the Kerry Rose (our contestant for the Rose of Tralee in August). She has Down Syndrome as her charity, so was glad to pose with me! (She had just finished Bungee jumping!).Low key, but nice day!

The next day I (MFE) went on my annual outing with LINKS, my church women's group. This year we went to a small church near Cork, (where the 13 of us doubled the congregation and all of the other 13 came to the after church tea to talk to us - fun. Then we went to Béal na mBláth ,the site of Michael Collins' death in an ambush in 1921 (Linda, on right,is reading us historical material as Esther listens!. Then lunch in  Inchigeelogh with a fun, singing host.

Finally we visited Guagan Barra , a beautiful, serenic and scenic spot with a lake, a chapel, and some historic markers. . 3 of the 4 cars of us drove back over an amazingly steep, curvy, narrow, isolated mountain road! Our guide knew it well, but she is not popular now with 2 of the drivers! Left, Olive; right Viv, Linda, Esther; below Linda, Rhona, Mary,Gill.