Last Friday morning we woke up to a very misty Castletownbere harbour which we understand is a normal occurrence in the area. But rain or shine we were going ahead with our plans to do one of the loop walks of the Beara Peninsula. It has always been one of myself and Donncha's dreams to do a walk in Ireland and since the kids are now well seasoned jungle walkers, they will sure have no problems with a walk in the cooler climes.
The walk we chose was the 7k Copper Mine Trail in Allihies (we thought as the kids can do 3k in 30+ degrees heat, a 7k walk would be a breeze). On approach Allihies was just as misty as Castletownbere but down to sea level, the mist kind of dissappeared and it was the lovely Irish summer again!
The walk started off behind Allihilies beach and for the first few kilometres we walked along the majestic coastline with the backdrop of the mountains behind.
We followed these very well placed Beara Way markers all the way round. The arrows below show the three looped walks of the area and we followed the green. If I am not mistaken, the yellow walking man is for the actual Beara Way which is a 206k circular route around the Beara Peninsula starting and ending in Glengarrif. It is typically supposed to take 9 days to complete. It's on the list!
Lots of photo opportunities and for short moments only I had willing models
We eventually started walking upwards towards the mountains which are sheer rock
And even came across sheep
We even managed a family picture (balancing the camera on the rocks) before heading down again. On the way down we walked past an old copper mine. One of many around Allihies, these copper mines were a major part of the area in the 1800s
And back down to the colourful little village of Allihilies
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