Northern Coast of Northern Ireland

We took a day trip up the Northern Coast of Northern Ireland. Despite being cold and windy the sun was out in full force. It was an incredible drive on the winding Antrim Coast up to Giant’s Causeway. The Giant’s Causeway is a World Heritage Site. It is four miles long and the main attraction is hexagonal shaped stones stacked in columns. I saw a picture of it in the Aylesbury library and said "we need to go there" and funny enough we did! Anyhow, the stones are supposed to have been formed from volcanic activity 60 million years ago and the cooling process formed these hexagonal shapes. I thought it was over-hyped until I saw it for myself and was totally in awe. This is the reason I have posted so many pictures of it!

We had been told about a rope bridge we could walk across but due to the 40 plus mph winds it was closed.

Standing on the edge of a cliff in heavy winds, it is a long way down.....


These were some cool stepping stones. So perfectly shaped.









This is the Dunluce Castle. Back in the 1600’s they were having a dinner party on a stormy night when suddenly half of the kitchen fell into the ocean killing some of the servants.


A weathered phone booth in the middle of nowhere


There were sheep everywhere. It reminded me of New Zealand.