It was a 40 mile trip round the Dingle peninsula to Fenit with little
gained in the way of northing. However the scenery was good – round Slea Head, through Blasket Sound, past Mount Brandon (an Irish ‘Munro’) and into Tralee Bay. Fenit has a fishing harbour and yacht marina (photo) dominated by an imposing statue of St. Brendan the Navigator – a bit over-hyped as a “Heritage Park” as it would fit in your back garden! A 55 mile trip today gave us a fine motorsail, averaging just over 6 kts with still a SW swell, up to the Aran Islands of sweater fame where we turned in to Kilronan on Inishmore. A few miles away the smallest of the three islands – Inisheer – is better known as the “Craggy Island” of Father Ted.