Northern Ireland - Causeway Coast

Blimey!
It has been an age since our last posting...(5 months!) and another age since the last one before that.

So, catch up time... Let's start with May... a few weeks into the Irish Sunny season and a gorgeous weekend on the Northern Ireland Coast.

This here is the famed Causeway Coast... Of Giants, amazing hexagonal rocks, castles and beautiful coast lines.... a real treat.

L-R: Spectacular Dunluce Castle

The Giant's Causeway -

The legend of the Causeway and Giant Finn McCool:

The Irish warrior Giant Fionn mac Cumhaill (Finn McCool) built the causeway to walk to Scotland to fight his Scottish counterpart Benandonner.
Fionn fell asleep before he got to Scotland. When he did not arrive, the much larger Benandonner crossed the bridge looking for him.
To protect Fionn, his wife Oonagh laid a blanket over him so he could pretend that he was actually their baby son. When Benandonner saw the size of the 'infant', he assumed the alleged father, Fionn, must be gigantic indeed.
So, Benandonner fled home in terror, ripping up the Causeway in case he was followed by Fionn.

Here it is just before dusk, when everyone else had left... Beautiful..

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Ballintoy Harbour

Carrick-a-rede rope bridge

L-R: The rope bridge as seen from afar...(between the two peices of land) and the crossing itself...

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Then suddenly, the mist and fog rolls in and moments later, the bridge, headland, coast, Ivan, have all but disappeared completely.....

But there's nothing like the atmosphere it brings ...

And so ends another great irish weekend..