The Ring of Kerry is a full day trip around the Kerry Peninsula...as shown below...with may site...click to go to
Our first stop was to see Brian and his Sheep Dogs...
With Voice and Whistle commands for each dog, he can control them in herding sheep...taking them up the hill.
...going way up the hill...saves a lot of walking.
They even operate....way, way, way up the hill...His whistles carry a long way...
Then he brings them back down...can cut one out of the herd...all wit foward, right, left, and stop commands to each dog.
How does he do that? We were all fasicnated...
...Anne Dols has quite a whistle...but but not as good as Brians...and Aidan
was fascinated with the camera..
Next we stopped for lunch
and Christine Downey found an admirer...who had already had a few by lunch on this Irish Bank Holiday
We had a good view of the Dingle Bay and Dingle Peninsula from our lunch site.
Michele and Mike by Dingle Bay...looking back to where we had come down the Dingle Peninsula the day before...
Diana and Conner Stone enjoyed the view...Back to Top
...Duane
and Mary Rose Wieland were enjoying themselves...
We had quite a view back to our lunch site as we climbed over the mountains. Back to Top
Jamie Skipworth in another stop out near the tip of the Kerry Peninsula as we started to return...the old monks used to live in beehive huts on islands like these up on the Dingle Peninsula...Where St. Brendan had sailed in an oilskin boat to find the new world.
We came back through Sneem...and the Rock Outside Dan Murphy's Door...a seat for Katie and Elizabeth Downey...Back to Top
...while a Pete, Mike, and Brian got an ice cream cone, and then went inside Dan Murphy's to enjoy an afternoon Guiness...
We met a dog outside Dan Murphy's Door...Back to Top
...and he later came in to join us inside.
Even Michele Downey's Yoda enjoyed Guiness...Back to Top
The stream the flows behind Dan Murphy's is beautiful in this view from the bridge as it flows to the sea a bit further on...
We then drove on to Ladies View...with a view of the Upper and Middle Lakes of Killarney...named for the favorite view of Queen Victoria's Ladies in Waiting. Back to Top
...and everyone gets their picture taken in Ladies View...
Brendan, Jean, Mary Tusha
Roger Burillas and Diana Stone
Jeff, Michele, Diana, Pete Downey
Joanne and Jason Stone
Jo and Ed Downey
Mary Rose Wieland
Michele Downey
Pete Downey on his rock
...Diana and Roger found the magical tree at Ladies' View
Just before coming back into Killarney, we stopped at Muckross...an old estate on the Lower Lake..
...a good view of the house. We didn't go on the house tour, but enjoyed the grounds, gardens, lake, and Torc Falls
Ed Downey and Jo Dols...
View of the Killarney's Lower Lake at Muckross...
View back to the house from the Lake...Jeff, Jamie, Michele, Diana.
Fantastic picture of Christine with some of the fantastic trees at Muckross.
Those are some big leaves, Joe...Anne Dols is a gardener, who loved the vegetation.
Great picture of Jean Keenan among the flora.
Some walked up by the stream to Torc Falls...
...beautiful Torc Falls
...after walking up to the falls, the crew took a Jaunting Cart ride back to the bus.
