Home stretch!

Well I'm finally done with work here in Cork, Ireland for the time being. I had originally planned to get out of work early at about 2 or so, but for some reason I got roped into a teleconference with people in Puerto Rico, so I didn't end up leaving till about 3:30...but after that I was runnin' for the door. I had planned to head down to Garretstown for a little surfing with Morgan, but when we finally got there the surfboard rental guy was already gone apparently. We contemplated going for a swim, but with no wet suit, it would probably have been a pretty cold swim. We decided to do a little exploring of the surrounding bluffs instead though, which ended up being really cool. As you remember from my previous blogging, I had already checked out some of the bluffs around Garretstown, but we went the other direction this time to a place called Old Head and it ended up being a pretty good decision.

When we first got out to the "point" of Old Head, we came to a gate with a small tower that was the entrance to a private golf course. It was an amazing spot for a golf course, but I'm not sure how it could have possibly been more than a 9 hole course, considering the real estate it was working with. We decided that we probably shouldn't sneak onto the course, so we ended up parking a little up the street and took a walk to the edge of the bluffs.

We saw a small trail leading down a bit so we wandered a little more and then realized that with some effort, you could actually work your way down the entire bluff (which was probably over 100 feet high). After making our way down, we ran into a few people that had came down from another direction, but were looking for a little friendlier exit. We sent them to the place we came down from and decided that we would be a little adventurous and attempt to do some rock climbing up this insane spot that they had shuffled down from (the picture doesn't do it justice...this thing was really steep!) After a few minutes of pretending we were from the movie Cliff Hanger, we finally made it to the top and decided that we were now qualified to give low level mountain climbing lessons. Anyways...although we didn't end up going surfing, it still ended up being a cool time and the weekend can only get better as we're heading up to Dublin tomorrow morning for a little sight seeing and Guinness drinking. Plus, I'm done with work until Tuesday...woot woot!

P.S. Morgan went to Galway and the Arran Islands the past two days, but I'm not sure he'll be writing us another blog entry, so I'll just mention then he seemed to have a good time on the Arran Islands, but didn't enjoy Galway all that much.