Saturday, August 30, 2003 (Cahersiveen - Republic of Ireland)
It's OK to stop moving for a while. Breakfast
till noon. Basking seals have got the right idea. Still searching for that
elusive traditional music.
Day 171. Since we’ve been on the road
almost without pause for the past couple of weeks, a little rest didn’t
seem like such a bad idea and so we stayed here an extra day to just relax and
unwind a bit.
We had a rather late
start to the day. By the time we had finished breakfast and cleared up it was
already noon. Just across the bay from our campsite are the remains of a castle
ruin and a couple of stone forts. We drove over to take a closer look but the
clouds moved in after a short while and we had to cut our visit short. It did
clear up later on in the day and we ate lunch in a nice pub in the middle of
town.
Probably the highlight for the
day was a small family of seals that we spotted basking on a mud bank a hundred
metres or so from the shoreline near our campground. Hopefully, we should get to
see a lot more seals either tomorrow or the day after when we visit the Basket
Islands at the end of the Dingle peninsular. Neither of us has ever seen seals
in the wild before. We were presented with the opportunity to do so in Namibia
but this would have been at the cost of the sand
boarding.
After idling the day away
pottering around town and the campsite, we had a late dinner in the brick and
decided to chance our luck again in town this evening in the hope of finding
some traditional music. Being Saturday night, we had high hopes that there would
be some music being played somewhere and there were a few taverns posting sings
to that effect. Unfortunately, it was to be another disappointing night. The one
place that we did find where music was being played turned out to be country and
western style that is hardly a fitting substitute. It’s ironic that we are
currently here in the West, the traditional music hub of Ireland, yet
can’t seem to find any traditional music being played anywhere. Our quest
continues, however.
Posted: Sat
- August 30, 2003 at 01:15 PM