Scoffing down boiled potatoes and soup at half eleven in the morning under a blazing Nepalese sun is not the archetypal holiday moment. But as Kerry based explorer Pat Falvey kept reminding us, our journey was an adventure not a package holiday.
The young girl who first spotted the walrus thought to have drifted to Ireland from the Arctic has come up with names for the creature – depending on whether it turns out to be male or female.
The giant walrus the size of a dairy bull landed on the rocks in Valentia Island in an extremely rare appearance of the North Pole species in Ireland.
Local man Alan Houlihan and his five-year-old daughter Muireann spotted it breaching out of the water as they walked along Glanleam Beach on the Kerry island on Sunday morning.
A video taken by Mr Houlihan shows the walrus climbing ashore.