The Tralee Blog

Just a small update on this otherwise idle (for now) blog.

See pic, everybody is welcome!

A newly written comment by Stevie regarding my post about the conversion of the old Tralee-Fenit railway line showed me that there might easily be a confusion of two quite different things mentioned on this page. Currently two major tourism related projects are going ahead in and around Tralee, both involving old railway lines. [»]

As already reported earlier, the Lee Valley Park project will be one of the biggest investments in tourism infrastructure of this decade. And today is a big day for the project: work has started near the Aqua Dome. As all this will completely have changed the landscape between Tralee and the Blennerville Windmill in a couple of months, I today decided to take some final panoramic pictures of the area as it looks now. One of them actually dates back to juli 2007, when even the old stonebridge hadn’t been touched yet. Enjoy! [»]

After almost ten years of intensive planning the proposed ”Lee Valley Park“ between Tralee and Blennerville can finally take shape. Mary Hanafin, Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport, yesterday announced - somewhat unexpectedly by most in the current economic climate - that a quite generous grant of almost 3 million Euro has now been allocated to the project. I think this is great news for Tralee, especially because the park will be the only new tourism project of that scale in Ireland to go ahead this year. [»]

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. [»]