The Tralee Blog

Today we spent the best part of the day watching a pod of ca. ten pilot whales in Sandy Bay near Castlegregory. While this may sound like a nice activity it has infact been a quite distressing experience, because this particular bay is at best five metres deep, and pilot whales are a deep water species. They can easily become completely disorientated in a shallow environment like that. Worse still, the same pod had already stranded once yesterday evening only a few hundred metres further up the bay, but the whales could be successfully refloated. [»]

Just a short, but rather great notice: The railway will finally be operational again after a break of 3 years. The steam engine 5T is still in dire need of repair, but at least it has been removed from the open yard and is now stored safe and dry inside the shed. The work will be done by two diesels instead, the first journey will commence on next saturday , 1. August at 10:30 am. And yes, I am talking about 2009. I’ll try to be there! More pictures after the break. [»]

While there are still more than 500 google-entries pointing potential visitors to “Fenit Seaworld”, that former attraction has infact closed a long time ago. Yesterday I spent some time in Fenit Harbour and took the opportunity to bring you a picture of the now disused building, because it will probably demolished very soon to make room for a new warehouse. If you wish to see a good display of native and tropical sealife in Kerry I would recommend to visit the Dingle Oceanworld Mara Beo instead.