We have to comment on the state of the roads. Although there are a few good ones generally they leave much to be desired, often being more repair than road with potholes just surfaced over. Even where the surface was good often it was very uneven and more than once we were bounced from one hump to the next. This was often followed by the crash of something jumping off a shelf onto the floor – but we suppose it then couldn't fall any further.......... However combined with the narrow twisty roads it was rather exhausting and made for slow progress.
As promised, though, the Ring of Kerry is quite dramatic in places and we stopped several times for photos. At this stage we were following a sub-route, the Ring of Beara, being on the Beara peminsular and turned off to Killmakilloge viewpoint, a very small picnic place overlooking a lovely little bay who's waters looked very inviting, and paused for lunch. In all honesty we could have stayed here longer but it was really very small and our two vans took up a lot of the parking space.
Whilst parked we consulted our stopover apps to find somewhere nice to overnight and spotted two likely places. The first was Travara Strand which we could reach quite quickly and the other, an allegedly motorhome dedicated place at Castletownbere, which would take a lot longer unless we missed out a sizeable part of the route. So decided to take a look at the first and found a very quiet little fishing harbour with toilets, water and even showers and a kiddies playground, obviously a local amenity site. Plenty of room to park with a lovely view and it took no persuading for us to “drop anchor” here.
Rounded the afternoon off nicely with tea and cake and a chinwag. It turned into a very pleasant late summer evening, something we hope might last at least a few days.
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