We are now in position at Brandon Quay to get ourselves over to Kilkee, some 38 miles north of us. Between here and there is Tralee Bay, Kerry Head, the mouth of the Shannon and Loop Head. It is the second last major crossing on this west coast.
Last time we paddled this section, with Mick O’Meara, we did it in a oner and 7m swells. We are not planning on such a big day this time. The low pressure system currently centred east of Iceland, is sending us some unfavourable north westerlies. So the plan is to spend another day in Brandon Quay (and Murphy’s Bar) before setting off in the slightly lighter winds tomorrow towards Ballyheigue on the south side of Kerry Head.
That sets us up for a 32 mile paddle to Kilkee on Thursday when the winds turn south westerly for a few hours.
Well that’s the plan anyway. Let’s see how it unfolds!
In the meantime a couple of photos.
The first of us with Pádraig the landlord. A great fella who we are trying to convince to paddle round Ireland!
The second was taken by Peter Evers a photographer who we met at St Margaret’s Bay. He was part of a team filming a car advert. We joked that they just needed a couple of kayaks in the shots and next thing we know we were being filmed pretending to load our kayaks on the fancy electric car. They had four beautiful models with them (male and female) – they obviously needed some rugged crusty old geezers for the contrast.
Lovely chatting to Peter and thanks for taking some shots of us and sending them through!
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