Knocknarea

Flan is in the "doghouse."
Yesterday she and Lucy decided to go exploring around the neighborhood....down to the river along the main road...not good. So I'm not letting the two of them out today. Flan is in Lucy's fenced yard as we speak, but I won't let the two out to run...they remind me of Amy and Jennifer when they were little...both very smart, but together they were brain dead...did things that weren't too smart or safe...like try to row to Vashon island in a rubber raft...that had a leak in it...but "gee, mom, we took a pump with us!!" Oh well, so today I took Flan on a very long hike. We scaled the dizzying heights of Knocknarea...all 1014 feet of it... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knocknarea. It was a great walk (about 45 minutes...often straight up!!) and she did very well in fact much better than me!! The first portion was a good marked trail through sheep fields..then it is just find your way and pray!! This is the supposed tomb of Queen Mebd. It has not been excavated yet, but I'm sure it will in the future. It is definitely about 5000 years old so been around a bit. Well worth our journey of the day. Then we stopped down at the beach at Strandhill where surfers come from all over to play. A great day.

Photos: The mt. in the distance with tiny bump...tomb on top; tomb; some extra shots of stuff like fossils and lichen on stones, old gates (I have a thing about old gates)