Adventures with Constance: September 2 - Day 37 Coastal Causeway

Belfast was a nice city, but alas we headed out the very next morning and made our way onto the Coastal Causeway (or is it the Causeway Coast?) Route which took us right along the northern coast of Ireland and is officially one of the "100 best drives in the world"...

It wasn't long before we had to make our first pit stop...well, that I had to make our first pit stop...here we are in Drains Bay, Larne...

Drains Bay, Larne

Constance and our super sporty (and mini!) Hyundai...

...3 miles north of Larne we hit the little village of Ballygalley...

We drove for awhile after this little stop and every so often Constance would exclaim, "Fuchsia!" I finally stopped so we could take her picture with some...

Fuchsia!

Constance and...fuchsia!

The Carrick-a-Rede rope bridge to Carrick-a-Rede island. Originally built by salmon fisherman, it is now a tourist destination. It crosses a chasm that is 30 meters deep and 20 meters wide.

...and this is as close as we got...

As impressive as the Carrick-a-Rede bridge was, the grand scenic event of the day was by far the Giants Causeway...and not only because there was a tram to take us right to it...

Constance sitting on one of the estimated 40,000 hexagonal columns that exist on the Causeway...

There I go taking a walk on the Causeway...which was not, incidentally, formed by giants as the name would have you believe, but by volcanic activity some 60 million years ago!

Were we to continue walking far beyond the point where the tram dropped us off, we would have come right up to this interesting formation called the Giant's Organ...they look like organ pipes! Get it?

Being cradled in the Giant' Shoe...called so because...it's shaped like a shoe - a giant shoe...

The Chimney Stacks...

Light coming over the cliffs of the Causeway...

Our last stop of the day was Dunluce Castle...

Set right on the edge of the cliffs, this sight was once used as a fort...

No tram, but we made our way anyway...

...here we go...

Light coming through a door in Dunluce...

We bypassed the opportunity to visit the Bushmills Whiskey Distillery and headed straight for the tourist hotspot of Portrush...which was really more like Coney Island in the off season...a little scary...