The Butter Road

A gorgeous day  we abandoned everything and headed off to the Mizen Peninsula to do another FastnetTrail - this time - the Deerreenatra Loop looked enticing. It was fabulous. Starting off in Schull we wend our way along the old butter road, down tiny roads, passed farms, fields, rivers and the sea and saw lots of interesting things: 
a waterlogged ford (small bridge provided in emergencies)
a lot of horses - one rolling on its back and farting
tons of cattle and some very impressive bulls
plenty of wildflowers - gorse, scabious, fuchsia
this abandoned tractor, and quite a lot more rusty machinery
the idle bridge - built during the Famine and of no use whatsoever
a mill house plus mill wheel
a pretend stone circle
an historic bridge with ornate pillars
the Fastnet Lighthouse and much more!
The extra shows the view from our lunchtime rock - only real men paint their farms pink. Or maybe the farmer is a woman. Or maybe I should not make any assumptions whatsoever. It's not a bad view though is it - looking out into Roaringwater Bay.
13km, Himself's knee held out and we treated ourselves to tea and buns on arrival back in Schull.