Kerry to Dublin
Leaving the Eclipse Center
Thursday's
activities were great even though it was tough to wake up after a strenuous
twenty six kilometer hike through the mountains while it was hailing and
raining. Once we finished breakfast, we packed up the bus and made our way to
the Eclipse Adventure Center. We all expected to go kayaking but a change of
plans had us hiking up the bank of the Blackwater River. The river was amazing.
It was a bit early to see the Atlantic salmon or brown trout, but if you
focused very hard, you were able to see a brown trout rise to the surface every
couple of minutes. A couple of the guys tried "trout tickling," reaching under rocks to find the small trout resting there.
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| Chaperones catch a break |
As we made our way back to the center, we had to pass two
very large bulls in a pasture no farther than twenty yards away. That kept
everyone on edge for sure. When we made it to the Eclipse Center, lunch was
served and then we had the rest of the day to ourselves. I spent the rest of
the day fly fishing for brown trout in the river. It was an amazing way to end
our trip in Kerry.
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| Crossing the river the easy way |
As we left
Kerry to go back to Dublin, the bus driver took a route we hadn’t seen before
through the mountains. We went through Moll Gap and by Ladies’ View in
Killarney National Park with beautiful scenic views. Stopping in Limerick as we
did on the way out from Dublin, we once again drove by the front gates of
Crescent College, one of the other Jesuit secondary schools in Ireland. On the
highway home we passed the signs for Moneygall, the ancestral home of Barack O’bama.
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