Photos of Day six on Tour on our way to Kilaney

Hi all,
Well dedication or what - firstly we remember and logged into Alison's betting account to bet on the Melbourne cup late yesterday afternoon our time. After working out the time difference we realised it would be 4am here when the race would happening. We didn't make any plans to be awake and watch it as we are leaving at 9am. However we did end up being close as we went out to see Pete Fagan preform last night- expecting him to start at 9.30pm- no like most of the live music it started later - much later midnight.

So being that we wanted to see him as Mark (our guide) had been yabbering on all day about how great Pete was, we walked back to the O'Donoghue's bar (cause their music was already happening) and ordered cider. The bar is attached to a posh hotel- yah us. And it was over loaded with (about 15) American tourists. But we also meet a lovely couple from Parkes (Australia) over for their daughters wedding in London. They were impressed that both Alison and I had been to Parkes and seen the movie "The Dish'.
Photos will come later.

Now on to the photo's I couldn't upload yesterday- I have got up at 6am so have only had 3 hours sleep so I could retry- so I hope you enjoy them. Also checked the race results- it started late due to rain and I didn't back the winner- so sad.

Mark (our Guide) feeding donkeys an apple. Heather thought you would like to see Irish Donkeys- do you want me to bring one home for you (or two).

How is this for a church- all hand built

This is Natalie (her first close up appearance on our blog) this was for her Nana to show that she went to church whilst in Ireland (she is inside the tiny church in the above photo) Good on you Natalie. 

Us all walking along the lakes edge at Dingle Harbour in the hope of seeing Fungi the Dolphin- yes a Dolphin. Apparently he has been hanging around here for 25 years all by him self. Whilst we saw him he was way across the lake and not close enough to get a photo- check out the following link for a close up. I was not popular when I mentioned life expectancies- taboo subject as the town thrives on the tourism of one dolphin called Fungi- mmm the name read the link for that story.

http://www.dingle-region.com/fungi.htm

Pretty lake at Dingle Fungi is in there some where (like Nessie)

Alison walking on the edge at lake in Dingle- look at the pretty blue sky

When we got to Killanery we went on a Horse and cart ride through Killarney National Park- best shot I could do on a moving cart sitting very close but opposite Alison, who is sitting next to Renee. The park is beautiful check out the link below for great scenery shots.

http://www.killarneynationalpark.ie/



A photo in the park whilst on the cart. Love this photo how pretty are all the autumn colours. Also 2 interesting facts in one part of the park they have cut down a large group of trees that are not native to Ireland and are replanting native trees. Next one is that one of the trees native to Ireland is used for breast cancer treatment- something in it is used in the medication- how great is that.


So I think I need to apologise as I think I spelt Killarney wrong in the last post - with only one L. Sorry about that peoples. Well it is now 8.20am and I have been at this one post for an hour and half with the down loads taking most on the time. Heading off now- we need to convince Mark to give us 15 minutes to get to a shop called Serendipity to look at the jewellery- here is hoping he says yes.
Miss you from here
Karen and Alison