Muckross Bike Ride

Right after Ross Castle, we took a long and windy road around Middle Muckross Lake, that also took us across 2 bridges. There were amazing trees, vines, shrubberies and trails that wind throughout the National Park. It was not unlike Vancouver Island. The lake was really really cold, though and so I didn't get to go swimming. The ride went on without a hitch. We visited an abbey with an incredibely old Yew tree that was some three hundred years old, and beside it was a graveyard with equally antiquated gravestones. Next, after a leisurely bike through some of the greenest and most tree-filled landscapes we have seen since Canada, we found some stone bridges that looked ancient. And, weirdly enough, we found some random palm trees in a deciduous forest. We took a break by a meeting of the waters which had an incredible view, and after biking further down the road, we eventually came to the beautiful Torc Waterfall. Unfortunately, my camera died just as we got to Muckross House and so we have no pictures of it whatsoever. It was quite the bike ride, with a large portion of the trip being beside cars which drove on very tiny lanes very fast. --Jesse