Saturday September 3rd

This morning we awoke to a nice looking day. On the road by 8 am to get to the ferry terminal at Magheroarty. We took the ferry at 11am to Tory Island. It was a very choppy trip at the beginning. There were 5 ladies on the boat along with 6 other passengers. Four of the 5 ladies had never made the trip before. They were on a ladies trip to the island. The 4 first timers were quite worried about the trip. In the end one of the women got sick. She was the only one.

 

Tory Island is 3 miles long and 1 mile wide. There are about 150 people on the island. After checking in we headed out to the east end of the Island to see the cliffs and climb up the headland. I was very happy as I made it almost all the way to the top. Charles continued to climb to the top and then out to the unusual rock formation at this end of the island. Charles said it was the best thing on the island. One can walk out to the end of the formation.

 

We ate lunch at the Cafe. We ordered hamburgers. Charles a cheese burger and I ordered a plain one. That is exactly what we got. Nothing else on the burger. We had a chuckle about this. We ended up putting catsup on it.

 

After lunch Charles walked out to the light house while I went back to the room. We had a very relaxing afternoon. Before supper we went for a walk around town. We were passed at least 6 times by a red car with 3 young men in it. They drove out to the lighthouse in the west end of the island to the cliffs in the east. Round and round they went. At one point they lost one of the passengers. I guess this was "cruising" on Troy Island. For such a small island there was lots of traffic.

 

At supper in the hotel bar we met up with the 5 ladies from the boat. We had a great time talking to them while eating. They had spent most of the day in the bar. Two of the ladies went out to Mass. They were surprised as mass was in Gaelic. They told us they talked with one of the Secondary teachers. Apparently they are 5 teachers for this level and 5 students. What a wonderful way to spend the evening!