Date: 18th June 2019
Travelled: 93 kilometres from Portmagee to Fenit both in County Kerry
Visited: Killorglin and Fenit
Stayed: Fenit boat-ramp CP, free, services around corner, N52.27645, W09.86232
Budget: 16 days @ โฌ98 per day
After a big day yesterday and a relatively early night we wake up to another mild and sunny morning. We have our coffee and fruit and get going as the car-park in Portmagee starts to fill again.
Returning to the Ring of Kerry (N70) we continue on, stopping for a quick shop at the Super Value in Caherciveen. We drive on stopping at a viewing point near Beenmore for breakfast. The croissants were excellent. There is a constant flow of tourist coaches heading south on the Ring.
The LP indicates Killorglin is an interesting market town with a special reference to King Puck, so we stop for a walk.
Mystery solved we continue on for Tralee passing through Castlemaine. As we do, we see a large sign โHome of the Wild Colonial Boyโ. Reminding me of one of my Motherโs favourites, โThe Wild Colonial Boyโ. I was tempted to turn around and take a picture of the sign but the thought of being T-boned by a fast moving tourist coach gives me second thoughts. Iโll give you part of the ditty instead.
It’s of a wild Colonial Boy, Jack Dolan was his name,
Of poor but honest parents, He was born in Castlemaine.
He was his father’s only son, His mother’s pride and joy,
And so dearly did his parents love. The wild Colonial Boy.
When scarcely sixteen years of age, He left his father’s home,
And through Australia’s sunny shores, A bushranger did roam.
He’d rob the largest squatters, Their stock he would destroy,
A terror to Australia was, The wild Colonial Boy…
Passing through Tralee rather than stopping as we stayed here several years ago. We walked the Rose of Tralee Gardens, so I figure we have done Tralee. We rejoined the WAW (N) and continued on to Fenit.
Fenit, Munster, Ireland
Michael and Pam
