The day after our meal at Josie's, the weather forecast was not good, so we had a lie in. However, we got up to find it was quite a reasonable day, and we enjoyed our breakfast outside, making the most of our sea views.
We decided we would visit the south westerley tip of the Beara Pensinsula, and perhaps even take a trip over to Dursey Island, which, unless you have a boat, can only be reached by cable car.
We did not time our arrival at the cable car very well. Like a lot of places in Ireland, there is no service from mid morning to around 2.00 p.m. - we couldn't work out if the Irish have a long elevenses break or an early lunch. As we arrived about 12.30, there was, therefore, no cable car running and, on top of that it started to rain, and it was a very wet and windy rain.
Gilbert showed himself to be more adventurous and less urbane that we thought, and he opened the bear mobile door, and stuck his head out in the rain, so as to get a good look at the cable car supports and winding mechanism. He was quite fascinated by it.
He turned round to view the island from the other direction and was a liitle surprised to see a black fin cutting through the water between us and the island. Although you can't see the fin, you have to believe that Gilbert was looking at it, as we did witness it ourselves.
When we talked to our host back at Sli Na Mara about it, we found out that it would have been a basking shark. Not dangerous, but quite an exciting sighting.
When the cable car started up again at 2.00 p.m. we spent some time, watching it making quite sedate (in the circumstances) progress between island and mainland, but we didn't go on it, as it wasn't the weather for exploring the island on paw.
The rain did ease though, and we had a lovely walk round the headland, once again following the Beara Way, so the day was by no means a washout.
Lots of love, Patrick and B.U. friends xxx
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