{"id":27652,"date":"2014-10-08T06:48:14","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T11:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gottobepresenttowin.com\/?page_id=27652"},"modified":"2014-10-08T06:50:05","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T11:50:05","slug":"westport-part-1","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.gottobepresenttowin.com\/?page_id=27652","title":{"rendered":"Westport Day 1 Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Continued from Donegal Part 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\nB&B means breakfast!! JB is hungover this morning. Apparently while RL and I packed in for the night, JB went out to a bar, witness a bar fight, heard live Irish music, had too many drinks on the house, and toasted with the whole bar!!!<\/p>\n

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\nAnother traditional Irish breakfast. How did all the Irish decide that traditional Irish breakfast contains all these items?<\/p>\n

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\nThen of course it was time to get into the car and drive all day on the wrong side again.<\/p>\n

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\nI am finally starting getting used to checking the center mirror by turning my head to the left. Reverse is still difficult though.<\/p>\n

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\nIt’s a beautiful day, no clouds. We lucked out.<\/p>\n

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\nHeading towards Slieve League, the tallest sea cliff in Europe. It was suggested by the owner of our B&B, except he had such a strong Irish accent that only RL could really understand him. I just smiled and nodded…<\/p>\n

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\nReached the coast again.<\/p>\n

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\nOne of the many many turning circles encountered.<\/p>\n

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\nThen the road narrows.<\/p>\n

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\nIt’s even more beautiful in person. The blue sky makes all the colors pop just that much more.<\/p>\n

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\nWe took the coastal route instead of the bigger main road. Another one of the many one laner roads that we’ve driven on.<\/p>\n

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\nSo narrow, but the whole drive, we do not encounter another car coming the other way on this narrow road.<\/p>\n

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\nDon’t mind if we head to the beach.<\/p>\n

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\nPristine untouched beach!!<\/p>\n

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\nI am #1…on this beach today.<\/p>\n

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\nLindy hop on the beach with JB.<\/p>\n

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\nRL and I badly reenacting one of our wedding photograph.<\/p>\n

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\nInteresting patterns on the sand here.<\/p>\n

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\nSeriously, we are not only the first ones on the beach today, we are the only ones out here right now. It’s incredible to be the only people out on a secluded beach.<\/p>\n

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\nIt’s pretty cold in the 50s so we didn’t take off our shoes to dip our feet in the water.<\/p>\n

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\nNo idea what these things were. They were squishy like hard jello.<\/p>\n

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\nOK, that was amazing but it’s time to leave. We’ve still got a whole cliff to climb after this.<\/p>\n

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\nThere’s another beach close to the beach we visited that has some really giant surfs.<\/p>\n

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\nThis trip reminds me so much of our road trip on the California coast. We’d stop all over the place on the coast and just take these amazing photos.<\/p>\n

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\nSeriously, it’s not a 50mph zone. Single lane roads with unmarked 90 degree blind corners are NOT 50mph roads!!<\/p>\n

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\nReached the first gate for Slieve League. A few more km down the road, there’s another parking lot closer to the top that’s sometimes full…let’s give it a try. We didn’t see to many people driving on the road this way so hopefully there won’t be too many others right now.<\/p>\n

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\nStuck going slowly behind a bus. I’d hate to drive a giant wide bus on these really narrow twisty roads.<\/p>\n

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\nParking lot right ahead, there’s plenty of room! Score!<\/p>\n

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\nSlieve League, the tallest sea cliff in Europe.<\/p>\n

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\nOK, time to go on a hike. Against my better judgement…we didn’t bring any food or water.<\/p>\n

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\nOK, this seems simple enough.<\/p>\n

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\nLooking back towards the parking lot.<\/p>\n

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\nMy little mountain goat.<\/p>\n

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\nThey had started work on making the trail more of a groomed trail. These big bags of sand must have been hauled up here by helicopters.<\/p>\n

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\nOur goal is to reach the peaks to the left of the clouds…well, that’s RL’s goal. I started getting hot and thirsty not 15 minutes into the hike…<\/p>\n

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\nThat’s as close as I was willing to get to the cliff.<\/p>\n

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\nSoon, the semi groomed trail ends and it’s just a goat path, the going gets much much more difficult.<\/p>\n

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\nThese little shrubs that cover this whole area look like little forests. Here’s a macro shot of one.<\/p>\n

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\nReached the first crest, and someone had built two stools out of rocks here!!<\/p>\n

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\nOK, onwards again. Parts of the trail had rock for you to walk on, then all of a sudden everything would disappear and you’d have to find your own way, then farther down there’d be rocks again. Odd.<\/p>\n

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To be continued at Westport Day 1 Part 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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