Beara Peninsula

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12 May 2014

In very changeable weather with frequent showers we continues along Beara Peninsula through Ireland’s major white finishing port, Castletownbere. Then a detour up to the top of Healy Pass, a road built in the 1847 famine times to help prevent starvation. The summit gave great views to both coasts. We continued to Ellens Rock at the end of the peninsula where we took a ferry for the short ride to the garden Garnish Island create by Annan Bryce and his son during the first half of the 20^th Century.

Our friends Wal and Daph Peace were on a coach tour in the area and were staying at the Maritime Hotel in Bantry. We found a very pleasant place to stay adjacent to the quay in the town and had an excellent meal with them.

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