Aug 09, 2012

Snippets / Memories / Photos of the day:

• We set out to do 160kms today but ended up doing 321 compliments of some persistent redirection of the GPS. Spoke to some people here at the hotel tonight that had done the same thing. Perhaps this is the area that Murphy hails from. Didn’t really matter, it gave us a little time to draw breath between the spectacular sights….sometimes as we headed back over familiar territory from the opposite direction.
• Might have been a long ride today but enjoyable. More of the bucking bronco stuff close to the coast and lovely curving roads with good surfaces as well as a few incredibly small lanes. The whole shooting match!



Looking back towards Dungloe as we left. Cloudy and overcast but dry…and has remained so all day with some sun this afternoon.



We wound our way around the coast road and discovered this little backwater at Bunbeg.



We were amazed at the miles and miles of grass covered sand hummocks amongst the rocks along the coast as we moved north and more so at the numbers of houses seemingly strewn about across the surface. Big numbers of new builds. A shellfish factory in evidence and peat harvesting and small holdings with very few sheep. Blowed if I know what they all do for a living. The government has obviously spent a lot of their EU money on connecting communities with roads.



Descending from Marmore Gap. Spectacular views and yes we had to come back again as that was the only way out. Some of the corners and steep rises would give the Hardknott pass a run for its money!



Looking back to the tiny village and beach of Dooey.



A spectacular beach we discovered down a cliff on the way from Glenoory to Milford.

Bits and Bobs:



This is how diesel for truck use is differentiated from farm diesel for tractors at the pump. Might also explain why we see so many tractors carting all sorts of interesting things around instead of on trucks like a massive trailer of used tyres I saw today and towing tri-axle trailers with back-hoes on them. Check out the prices also. That’s Euro’s not Aussie dollars and there is a 50cent difference between road and farm diesel.



Some nice little overcoats for some fire extinguishers at a servo.

Last nights’ Accommodation:

Rest a Wyle B&B, Dungloe, Ireland

A comfortable little B&B with adequate facilities and welcoming hosts. Use of a nice sitting room which I appreciated for the Blog instead of balancing the notebook on my lap. Reasonable distance from the street and in the rear of the building so no street noise. Must have forgotten to check if there was an evening meal so a 1.2 kilometre walk to town for dinner which worked out well as it was dry and when I got here if I closed my eyes everything was still moving from the lumpy bumpy ride so the trek to town and back served as a good wind down.



Rest a Wyle B&B, Dungloe.