We were supposed to return the rental car yesterday, but extended our rental 2 days to allow for a few more sights. Tomorrow we head to Dublin for our final 4 days in Ireland. But today our goal was to get to the Aran Islands. The largest of 3, Inishmore, has many things to do and see. We got going late and missed the first ferry to the islands. So we hit the road west out of Galway to Rossaveal to catch the next ferry. But we ran into horrible traffic on the little road. With amazing luck, along the way we saw Aer Arann flights to the islands. We booked the next flight to Inishmore. We boarded the little plane about an hour later.
Soon we were airborne and heading to the island (only about 10 minutes by plane, 40 by ferry!). Aimee got to sit in the co-pilot seat and film some of the flight. We aproached the small landing strip.
Our time was short, about 2.5 hours, until the last flight back. Known for its sweaters, we made a point to visit the sweater market and each get one. I could tell mine was real because it smelled like sheep (we used to have sheep when I was growing up and that wool smell is specific). We wanted to bike to some of the sights but time was short so we rented bikes and went first east of town then back through town and stopped on the beach [1][2]. The tide was out and the beach was a strange grey sand with ripples — sort of looked like water from a distance. Huge chunks of limestone dotted the beach. Rocks covered in kelp (maybe ?) also are found. Aimee found a jellyfish on the beach too. There were also the coral-like formations made of tiny shells. Other parts of the same formation had seaweed (?) and larger distinct shells. Here’s a collection of stone, seaweed and kelp (like hair). A large area of stones near the road also had a lot of broken shells (the white stuff).
We caught our flight back (it was windy there) and packed up our things for the train ride to Dublin the following day.
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