End of Ireland Motorcycle Tour 2013, But ..........

Again we were a few days without Internet so I have to cover  more than one day here.  Bear with me, ok?

We arrived in Killarney Friday, wet, cold and ready to stay in one place for a few days.  We met up with other Blue Knights that came over from the continent for their convention which our tour included.  So our group of 174 people swelled to over 200, but it was good to meet new people and see other friends that we knew.  On Saturday we took off for another ride since the weather turned good again.  This day we went around the Ring of Kerry.  I'm sure everyone has heard of the Ring and how you should see it when you are in Ireland.  Well, this was the second time I had been around it and I have to say that the Ring of Beara and Slea Head Drive are much, much prettier.  Those two rides get you closer to the coastline of the rugged Irish west coast and the Ring of Kerry takes you through more of the countryside.  But the reason that one is so popular and famous is because that is the road that is wide enough for buses to take tourists on.  The roads to the other two are only good for cars and motorcycles.

 All along the roads we traveled we found cows and sheep - lots and lots of sheep and cows.  Well, on this ride I couldn't help but take a picture of this little one snuggled next to Mum.

After we said goodbye to the Blue Knights at the convention on Sunday our small group of 9 bikes took off for the town of Galway to spend the night.  And, of course, like the pattern, it was rainy and cold again.  But we just suited up as best we could and we took off.  We ended up taking a ferry across the bay with cars and, as you can see, a very large bus.

After the ferry ride we headed off to the Cliffs of Moher.  These cliffs are 700 feet tall and 5 miles long.  If we had better weather we probably could have seen the famous puffins that nest there, but they were the smart ones and were out of the rain.  The cliffs got their name from a ruined promontory fort "Mothar" which was demolished during the Napoleonic wars to make room for a signal tower at Hag's Head.

After making it to Galway last night we took off today for Dublin in, you guessed it, good weather.  It seems that every other day is rain.  Tonight we said goodbye to our new friends from Virginia as they fly home tomorrow and we continue on to Northern Ireland by ourselves.  So even though the motorcycle tour is over we continue in a car for the next two weeks on our own, so stay tuned.