Sat May 11

The clear skies held into Saturday so we decided to burn one of our days over in Co Sligo. The places we had in mind would be much better in good weather and rain was forecast for the coming week. And of course it was quite close. First stop was the Benbulbin Forest walk. This was a six kilometer loop that went went across the front of Benbulbin and then doubled back to get a good look at Donegal Bay. 

_8508337 _8508391-HDR The knobs  at the top of Benbulbin look like teeth don't they?

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After turning the corner of the loop we got grand vistas of Donegal Bay. Below is Cassiebawn Castle and right above and to the left is Killybegs harbor complete with cruise ship. And to the left of that is St. John's Point Lighthouse.

_8508370-Edit After our walk we went over to the Fairy Bridges which are just small natural bridges carved by the sea, but "fairy bridges" sounds so much more Irish. And they are pretty!

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We then drove around to the east and south side of Benbulbin. We found this cool waterfall back there.

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Coming back we got this view of Cassiebawn silhouetted against the Slieve Leauge cliffs.

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The blueish light was due to a high overcast moving in. No epic sunset tonight so back we went to Carrick.