Giants Causeway

Had a day out to the famous Giants Causeway in county Antrim. We had an early start for us catching the bus at 9.30 am. We paid to enter the visitor centre but you don't need too, however you do get a free audio tour thingy and it is a stunning building.

The weather was beautiful, and the coastline was truly stunning and impressive, it's quite a long walk down to the basalt dyke that formed the causeway 60,000,000 years ago ( see the audio tour thingy came in handy! )

I have spent quite a lot of time at the other end of this dyke having been storm bound on Staffa in the Hebrides a couple of times. Staffa is home to Fingals cave.

The blocks are a variety of four, five, six, and seven sided shapes.

these are some of the vertical columns the horizontal joints are interesting, if you take them apart (just kidding) they are all a ball and socket joint with a convex and concave mating face.

 These are Finn McCools organ pipes, apparently he only plays them on Christmas morning , about 6am.

This is Finns boot

The Amphitheatre withs Finns chimneys, apparently when they are smoking the Giant is in!

Walking along to the Amphitheatre.

It's a popular place on a sunny day!