Dingle

After leaving Killarney we spent half a day driving along the coastal road of Dingle. Our first stop along the route was at some Beehive huts also called ringforts. They have been there for over 4000 years which is hard to believe as they look pretty precarious, like one good storm would just knock them over. People lived in the huts from anicent times until about 1200 AD. Whoever built them was pretty clever, they are built with the stones piled down and outwards so the rain runs off them and wont go inside the little huts.

Beehive shaped houses

We stopped at a couple of lookouts to take photos, at one of these we saw a mountain sheep scale the cliff up to the road, jump the barrier, cross the road to lick a frozen puddle and then scale the cliff face on the other side of the road. Pretty impressive on a normal day but that day their was ice and snow everywhere so we were very impressed!
At one point we took a little side road that said it went to a lookout and we somehow managed to drive practically out onto the sand on the beach.

Our car nearly on the beach

We went on a walk to the top of a little mountain, the views were amazing but the thing that entertained us the most was when we discovered that the puddles were frozen, we spent a lot of time throwing rocks into the larger puddles trying to get them to skip along, then boring of this we found larger rocks and tried to smash holes in the ice. it was funny just how entertaining it was to throw rocks at a frozen puddle.

on top of a mountain

At about 2pm we decided to start driving to Milltown Mawby where we were staying for the night. I'll write about that in the next post.