We left Dingle via Connor Pass; at 456 m, it is Ireland's highest mountain pass with great views back to Dingle Harbour to the south and Mt. Brandon to the north.
We have generally taken back roads on our travels around Ireland, and today was no exception. We crossed the River Shannon on a small car ferry on our way north, leaving County Kerry and entering County Clare.
And on to the Cliffs of Moher, which stretch for 8 km along the coastline, standing at 214 meters at their highest.
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The site has grown in popularity, and is today's most visited natural attraction in Ireland. When Eliza and Agnes visited about 15 years ago, visitors stood on the flat stone ledge below which today cannot be accessed. One of Eliza's trip highlights was when she and Aggy lay down on that ledge to look over the edge.
It was a day of amazing diversity in sites, and we approached Galway by driving through the Burren, a unique striated limestone landscape largely shaped by massive shifts in the earth's crust 270 million years ago that buckled the edges of Europe and forced the ancient seabed here above sea level. At the same time the stone sheets were bent and fractured to form the long, deep cracks characteristic of the Burren today.
Even in these seemingly inhospitable environs, farms have been created along the edges.
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