Giant's Causeway!!! (part 1, Ireland part 2)

We went to the Giant's Causeway! It's a world heritage site up in northern Ireland and it is a collection of hexagonal stones/columns. It's done naturally from heating and cooling of volcanic stones and erosion, but the tale about giants is better. It says that there was a bridge across the water between Ireland and Scotland made out of cobblestone (in come the hexagonal rocks.) The Irish giant, MacCool, walked across and saw how huge the Scottish giants were, so he ran home and told his wife and was worried about how to defeat him (yeah they're always fighting I guess.) His giant wife had all the brains and decided to dress MacCool up like a baby and put him in a huge cradle. She also baked *huge* biscuits out of stones, and he set MacCool up like a giant (giant) baby. The Scottish giant then followed over the bridge to check out the Irish and he found MacCool as a baby. He was a little curious so he tried the biscuits, but found them so hard to eat that he was not strong enough! Then he was convinced that MacCool was a real baby and decided "snap! If their babies are this huge, the adults must be MASSIVE" and he ran away back to Scotland and broke the bridge, hence why Ireland and Scotland are no longer connected. Ta daa....


Caitlin, Dave, and Caroline Mulvenna. As you can tell, they got all bundled up for it.




someone standing on top of some of the rocks


Dave walking into my beautiful shot!


You can see the stones and how some of them are really hexagonal (or other -agonal)


A beautiful cove in the coast with some of the rocks




Dave being man on the mountain on a group of rocks.

more soon!
-z