Still wet with the all-pervading “Irish Mist” (sounds like a nice whiskey to me!) although thank goodness there are no further signs of water leaking into the van. A good start to the day and after breakfast a full service including fully draining the water tank – we think we've picked up a load of over-sanitised water, you can taste it in the tea!
Returning to the Wild Atlantic Way we continued along the coast, pausing for photos including the impressive Killkee Cliffs – height barriers again but we found a good place to pull in with excellent views. Then onto Carrigaholt Bay for a doggy run – no beach but exercise nevertheless.
The next biggish town was Kilrush where thankfully we noted the crowds had disappeared so we stopped at a supermarket to replenish stores and find the T.I office. Once again failed but a nice Garda (police) sergeant told Terry there wasn't such a place in the town but if we tried the marina he thought they had tourist info there. They didn't, of course, but it made a better lunch stop than the very sloping high street. We also took the opportunity of booking ferry tickets across the Shannon Estuary which avoided a 100km diversion into Limerick and back – significantly cheaper to do it on-line with less fuss on the boat.
So after lunch a 10 minute or so drive to the ferry terminal; boats are every hour so we had a short wait where we took the opportunity of looking in the tourist shop, Bren coming away with a bagful of information books and four T-shirts! But soon enough the ferry appeared and we were quickly loaded for the 15 minute crossing before turning west again. Getting late in the afternoon we had already researched a likely looking overnight stop so drove to Carrigafoyle Castle, a in the back of it viewpoint on the WAW but with a small carpark unused overnight and well recommended on our apps.
Once several visiting
cars had departed we shuffled ourselves in line against a wall to
take up minimum space and also avoid getting blocked in by visitors
in the morning. Then it was a cuppa and chat before settling down for
the evening. Late on we were joined by a genuine Irish traveller, complete with horse and cart and his peat fire glowing steadily. It was pouring with rain and he didn't appear to have any shelter but seemed happy enough when his followers (in cars) had left.
We did see some brightness during the early afternoon but it was replaced by a bank of very wet sea fog which we saw rolling in. The forecasters, however, are still saying it will be better tomorrow!
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