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Red Trout Lake

May 2025. I hiked to Red Trout Lake (or Lough Nambracdearg), via Triangle Lake, and Knockrower, before looping back to the foot of Mangerton via the Old Kenmare Road. My day began with an early mornin...

Killarney Lakes Place Names

The map below contains marker pins of all of the local place names I know on Lough Leane (Lower Lake), Muckross Lake (Middle Lake), the Long Range and the Upper Lake in Killarney. I've gathered some o...

Saturn V Rocket

The Awesome Engineering of the Saturn V Rocket 🚀 When we think of the Saturn V, we often picture its monumental size and the fiery launch that sent humans to the Moon. But beneath the raw power was a ...

Boeing 777

Agile at Boeing in the 1990's Boeing's Secret to the 777: They Were Agile Before It Was Cool In 1995, two seemingly unrelated events occurred: the first Boeing 777 entered commercial service and the "...