It was a couple of hours drive to the Causeway and on the way we stopped at Dunluce Castle, near the town of Bushmills (where the whiskey comes from).
When we reached the Causeway visitor centre we took the 15 minute walk down to the stones with some beautiful views on the way. I climbed up on some of the stones, but not right up on the really tall ones.
The stones are are formed by a rare form of volcanic activity. Similar volcanic rock formation can by found in Fingal's Cave in Scotland and at Reyjnisfara in Iceland, but Giant's Causeway is by far the biggest one with over 41 thousand of these hexagonal columns.
On the way back we had another stop at a place where the coast of Scotland is only 12 miles away. In the photo below the land beyond the island s actually the Mull of Kintyre. Be glad this is a blog not a podcast, so I can't break out into a very bad rendition of the Paul McCartney song.
After that it was back to the ship for an early supper and early to bed. We'd been warned that we were expecting winds of 50 knots and swells of 4 meters in the Irish sea once we left port, so we didn't want to be walking around the ship in that kind of weather.
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