Eleventh Ireland Post: We All Hike The Moutain!

Yessa had been asking all day when it would be time to hike the mountain as a family. Buds was putting in a busy work day, as well as planning to take sunset pictures from the summit, which impacted when he wanted to be up on the exposed mountaintop. (I make it sound like we were summiting Everest.)

It had been a very rainy day, and we all quickly had soaking feet and pants. We’ve tried a different route up the mountain each time, and for this trek we walked on a path for part of the way. Still, the journey requires climbing over rock walls, barbed wire fencing, electric fencing, cow pies, and mud.

Yessa got a couple long scratches right after we began. Monkey grabbed hold of a stinging nettle, and all of us were wet and dirty by the time we returned home, but, more importantly, four of the five of us saw our first Irish rainbow!

Buds stayed up at the ruins to take sunset pictures while the rest of us hiked back down. We saw the rainbow near the end our journey.

Monkey and Buster spotted the rainbow first, but Yessa was easily the most excited about it. She was distressed at first that “Dada” would be missing it, and then she decided she was going to walk to the end of the rainbow. She trekked off across the field in the direction of the rainbow, but by the time she reached the next crest, it was gone. Her determination was still impressive.

Some shots of the trek.

Next adventure: The Rock of Cashel.