Adventures

Today was quite an adventure. I planned on hitting Cork, Fota Wildlife Park, and An Cobh, but my plans skewed. While outside of Ballyduff, there was a huge thud and the car jerked on the road. Pulled over, I was shocked to find that the balljoint on the car wheel had come off and the wheel was at a 90 degree angle to the car. Almost immediately, people started pulling over. One woman called her boyfriend, a car mechanic, and he came by too. In five to ten minutes, he had the wheel back on and tight. I made it to a mechanic, who had it fixed within an hour. Having lost time, I decided to skip Cork and go directly to Fota.

Fota is located in Cork, and is a particularly unusual place. It has mixed species housing and basically all the animals are loose or behind very lenient fencing (minus the carnivores). I saw everything from Giraffes to Capybara. There was a family of ring tailed lemurs that hopped across the path, one of them carrying a baby.

I stayed until closing time, then went to An Cobh. This is formerly known as Queenstown, where the Titanic traveled from on its final journey. I tried to get into the great cathedral there, but it was either in mass or closed. There was a row of houses known as “the pack of cards” that supposedly looked out onto where Titanic docked for the last time.

At night I watched the Tudors, but I was too tired to finish it.