Family Mellmann

Today we took a day tour to see the Cliffs of Moher and Aran Islands (Inisheer, the smallest of the three islands).  We joined our tour group in downtown Galway and boarded a tour bus. The bus took us on a 90 minute drive to the coast where we boarded a ferry bound for Inisheer.  On Inisheer we rented a horse and buggy for a tour of the island. When the tour was over we stopped for a snack before getting back on the ferry. The ferry took us past the Cliffs of Moher before returning to the harbor. The cliffs are quite stunning, impressive in their size. At their southern end, the cliffs rise 390 feet above the Atlantic Ocean at Hag's Head.  Five miles to the north, they reach their maximum height of 702 feet.  The cliffs are home to seagulls, puffins, and many other sea birds. We return to the bus to begin our journey home, but first a stop at the cliffs from a different perspective. Now that we had seen them from the water, we got to see them from above by walking on top of the cli