We had planned on our second day in Connemara to head out to the Aran Islands. I've heard that it's absolutely beautiful there. To get there we'd need to take a ferry across. We ran into a couple of problems.The first problem is that we did not have an internet connection or a phone book. Being so reliant on technology has its limits. We didn't know what time the ferry left. I figured if we left by 9:30AM, we'd get to the ferry port by 10:30AM and wouldn't have to wait too long. I was half right. If we'd gotten to the ferry port by 10:30AM we would have been right on time for the ferry. The second problem was that I didn't realize is that it would take us an hour and a half to get to the ferry port. This was my first lesson in Irish driving times that I would fail to learn two or three more times on our vacation (much to Beth's chagrin). We arrived at 11AM and the next ferry was at 1PM. We decided to skip the Aran Islands.
However, we did find a nice coral beach by Carraroe to spend the day. Since we had some beautiful weather, we stuck around Carraroe for lunch and then headed back to our own beach. Here's RJ at the beach at Carraroe.
The following day, we had planned to go into Clifden to get RJ a haircut. RJ did really well. Here's a picture of him at Dog's Bay beach sporting his new do.
In those first few days, we did a bunch of driving, too. Here's a couple of my favorite spots.
Dog's Bay Beach
Lough Inagh
Killary Fjord
2 comments:
Pity you missed the ferry. Maybe next time!
As the season gets busier there are more sailings.
Nice shot of Dogs bay. I was there last year and it's a beautiful and nicely isolated beach.
Yeah - would have loved to go and probably would have got on the 1pm ferry if it weren't for our 15-month old. We weren't quite sure how he'd deal with the journey around the island as well. Would definitely like to give it a try again some other time! I've only heard good things.
Thanks for reading!
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