Dingle Way - day 5, Dunquin to Feonough

Today was our last day of hiking. There are three more sections on the Dingle Way but we only planned on doing 5 days. It is with mixed feelings though. This trail has been beautiful and we would recommend doing the entire thing. However, this was day 17 of hiking (about 230 miles total over three hikes) and we have had enough for now.

For our last day, nature went out of it's way. The weather was sunny but breezy - perfect hiking weather. We hiked on country roads, the beach, and above the shoreline, all with incredible views of the peninsula. Strangely, though, there were 12 Americans in the pub for dinner last night, all walking the same way, but we saw no one on the trail today. The trail was hardly hilly and very easy walking so no one really passed each other. We thought we may have been the last ones to get on the trail because we were talking with a couple from Ireland (Cork) and a lady from Belgium at breakfast. But we were the first to arrive at the BnB that most were staying at.

When we started the day we thought we only had about 11 - 12 miles to walk today because the BnB address said one town, but we had to go farther than we thought and ended up walking 15.5 miles. We didn't mind the difference though because the costal views were amazing.

We said goodbye to the couple from Boston as they were staying elsewhere and then had a nice dinner with the North Carolinas (Margaret and Bill) and the British Columbians (Alena and Cheryl). Tomorrow they will hike on and we will venture to Galway.

We were blessed with fantastic weather. In our 6 days on the Dingle peninsula, we only had a few minutes of rain on the first day and had much more sunny skies than cloudy ones.Read more