Tuesday, January 17, 2017

A Castle on a Hill and a Giant's Causeway

To begin our final full day in Northern Ireland, we drove up the coast to Bushmills where we toured the Old Bushmills distillery. Before we arrived at the distillery we drove by Dunlace Castle. After the castle, we continued to the distillery where we learned how whiskey is distilled and made. Sadly, there were no photos allowed in the distillery.

This is a glass from the Bushmills Distillery
Pictured above is Dunlace Castle. You may notice that it seems to be falling into the sea. 

After the distillery, we traveled to the Giant's Causeway. The Giant's Causeway is a natural basalt formation on the coast of Northern Ireland. The myth is that a Giant, named Finn, built a bridge over to Scotland to battle another Giant. When Finn got to the other side, he realized that the other Giant was too large to he ran back across the Causeway and the other Giant followed him. Finn then hid from the other Giant with the help of his wife, and the other Giant went back across to Scotland destroying the causeway leaving behind the remnants that people can see now today.
I would have to say that the Giant's Causway was definitely my favorite part of our trip thus far!

Pictured below are photographs from the Giant's Causeway.

Notice the Basalt columns that I would say make the rocks look like Honeycomb. 

Also here is a time lapse I took of the causeway while we were there:
Giant's Causeway Time Lapse

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