Another Walk On Our Peninsula.

 Saturday wasn't a bad old day weather wise.  So we got the wife to drop number two son, Rosie the Golden Retriever  and me at Boooltenagh.  

Booltenagh car park to be exact.  This is on top of the ridge between Dunmanus Bay and  Bantry Bay.  Apparently there is a Bronze age Souterrain there.  Which is an underground structure and shows that people dwelled there once.  Perhaps they made briquettes, drank red lemonade, ate Tayto crisps and read the Southern Star newspaper?

 Unfortunately no doggies are allowed on this part of the Sheeps HeadWay.  So we walked along the boreen with the grass growing up the middle.  A sign perhaps that this long and winding road is not frequented by many cars, two to be exact.  The two drivers  both drove cautiously and waved and we reciprocated.  

Then we walked through Coomkeen where Durrus cheese is made.  This is also part of the Coomkeen Loop which is one of the many varied routes on the Sheepshead Way.    It's only a few miles long and a good walk along roads, bog and rocky mountain like tops with a few  ladder stiles thrown in.   I even composed a rather silly ditty entitled I Met A Colleen On The Road To Coomkeen.  Another time perhaps? Go on ask me kindly and I will post it!

No Shooting.   What not  even photos?

Looking South over to Dunmanus  Bay.

Do you not know where you're going Dave?  Of course I do.  I am just having a breather.

Not a soul on the road.

Rosie deciding which way we should walk. We carried on to my yet unadopted Northsider Loop.  

Top of Fahane looking down to the North side (Northsider) and looking over Bantry Bay.

Coming down the hill I noticed this Rhododendron in flower.   We walked along the main road heading East towards Bantry.  I reckon we walked between six and seven miles in two hours and twenty minutes.  Not bad! Especially for a ten month old Golden Retriever and us two.