Changelog

What sea life you're likely to see off Dingle and the Blasket Islands through the year — dolphins, whales, basking sharks, seals, puffins and the cliff seabirds — with the boats that run the trips. Drawn from the local operators' sightings and the Blaskets' protected-area status; it's the seasonal pattern, never a promise.

Pick any day in the next few months and see how crowded town and the Slea Head Drive are likely to be — and the calmest day to come instead — worked out from the day of the week, the season, festivals like the Races and the Food Festival, and the school holidays. With the local parking answer for each level.

Emergency numbers, SouthDoc, the community hospital, ESB Networks, Uisce Éireann, the council, Údarás na Gaeltachta and Local Link — every number read off a live official page, and a link instead wherever we couldn't.

The last bus back from Tralee, the Conor Pass 2-tonne limit, parking, what West Kerry Community Hospital does and doesn't do, bins, the new short-term-let register, and where Irish actually lives on the peninsula.

Chop, wind and water temperature for the harbour mouth, Ventry, Béal Bán and Wine Strand, read for swimmers. Each spot says honestly where its offshore forecast point sits, so the numbers err on the rough side.