Dingle day 2 - rocks and royalty

Main concern today was who wanted to see THE WEDDING (William and Kate) and if so how would we fit it in?
Ken came up with a masterplan which worked well though. We did a morning location at Bealacoon Cove in Minard Bay, east of Dingle and then came back for a late coffee at Paudie's Bar in the Dingle Ba hotel and timed it to a nicety to catch the vows, the vestry and the departure from Westminster Abbey.
Back to Bealacoon - sadly one car load didn't make it as the convoy system broke down. We realised it when we got there and while we went down to the beach with instructions from Ken to look at the melange and the fault, he went back and scouted around various places in the hopes of finding the missing car. By the time he got back, sadly without them, we'd 'done' those locations and he took us over to the north side of the cove to look at the ribbon striped rocks - stunning reds and oranges with ducky little folds in them. Then back to the melange to make sure we had seen the best bits and ID'd the fault correctly, before going up to the back of the beach where there are Holocene beach and peat deposits - I was thrilled to find recognisable silver birch bark in large chunks!
Back in Dingle we met up with the others - I think they and Ken had been chasing each other around the lanes! - watched the wedding, drank our coffee (though sadly they had run out of the scones Ken had promised) and then headed off to Slea Head around midday.
Here I got bitten by the most westerly horse fly in Europe - ouch!
Anyway that done we were a) stunned by the views and b) fascinated by the 3D exposure of the beaconites burrows and some pictures of the beastie that probably made them.
On then to another seafood chowder venue before going off to Dunquin Harbour. First stop was down one of the old zigzags to a ledge with a view of the cliffs and then we headed down what I think is one of the most amazing cliff roads I've ever seen which is an amazing bit of engineering down the spur of cliff sheltering the harbour itself. This was where boats from the Blasket Islands came in, and the ferry still goes from here. Some interesting closeups - mud cracks and a mud conglomerate before heading back up which was one of the few occasions when I've found the up easier than the down!
Last stop of the day was Wine Strand where we walked round the cliffs to a little bay with exposures of fluvial fining up cycles and a smashing dyke - the most southerly dolerite dyke in Ireland - which had some lovely amygdales full of zeolite.
Back to Dingle and meal 3 at the Marina Inn where we are steadily working our way through the menu. Tomorrow - south Dingle and round to the Gap of Dunloe to meet up with Ken's wife Bettie and a colleague, Pat Meere who is a structural geologist