Index of Pictures

 
  some ducks on a canal in Galway City more ducks more ducks jellyfish in Galway harbor Galway harbor a poorly-oriented shot of the 12 Bens taken from a mountain near Killary woolies  
 

 
  Turf. I think Catherine had some more technical term for this dirt structure. looking over towards Leenane and the Mweelrae mountains looking over towards Leenane and the Mweelrae mountains looking over towards the Mweelrae mountains and the fjord looking out along the fjord Leenane Mweelraes  
 

 
  the 12 Bens off in the distance we're about to climb this one Catherine with the 12 Bens in the background Catherine with the fjord and Lough Fee in the background the neighboring hillside  
 

 
  12 Bens off in the distance Lough Fee and the 12 Bens off in the distance 12 Bens 12 Bens 12 Bens Killary fjord Killary fjord  
 

 
  Killary fjord Killary fjord Killary fjord the ridge we ate lunch on Killary fjord more of the ridge Killary fjord  
 

 
  a town on the other side of the fjord Leenane 12 Bens neighboring hillside Catherine on top of the mountain setting up the camera  
 

 
  Catherine and I on top of the mountain, with the 12 Bens in the background part of the ridge we were on the valley we descended in the fjord the fjord big moguls  
 

 
  some sweet grass close-up on the sweet grass a lone woolie Mweelrae bowl some more naked woolies  
 

 
  mmmhh...thistles a little stream in the valley The sheep seem to get paired up, and one gets shorn while the other keeps his coat. This apparently imparts a serious dominant-submissive relationship. Interesting. then again, they all freak out whether or not they've been shorn  
 

 
  this guy was strangely unperturbed by our presence Killary fjord  
 

 
  the mountain we hiked up sunset on the fjord and the next day it was foggy  
 

 
  Lough Fee Lough Fee Lough Fee the coastline between Lettergesh and Tullycross same coastline Tullycross  
 

 
  the most-thatched cottage we saw countryside near Tullycross and Renvyle near Renvyle island just off the coast of Renvyle coastline near Renvyle coastline near Renvyle  
 

 
  ruined tower near Renvyle wildflowers prettier wildflowers on the side of the road near Renvyle a little valley going back towards Derryinver same valley  
 

 
  sheep in the valley  
 

 
  my photos do not do justice to the surreality of the colors near Derryinver? more wildflowers  
 

 
  Letterfrack, maybe? the most-signed post we saw the dining room in Kylemore Abbey the lobby in Kylemore Abbey the gothic chapel at Kylemore Abbey inside the chapel some stonework inside the chapel  
 

 
  The three types of Irish marble. Green is from Connemara, red from Munster, black from ... somewhere else. one of the old trees from which Kylemore derives its name (coill mhor) Kylemore Abbey and Kylemore Lough Kylemore Lough Kylemore Lough  
 

 
  Kylemore Lough some plains on the way back to Killary from Kylemore rocks cut turf  
 

 
  rocks rocks  
 

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