Ireland 2014:26 Giant's Causeway

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Giant's Causeway
From the bus going to the causeway. You can walk if you're young and active, but we weren't.

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It's very pretty, and wild.

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A very rocky bay.

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This is the beginning of the causeway. We didn't go any further along the coast.

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The rocky litter in the foreground consists of bits of the basalt columns.

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Some of the unbroken columns. Others, further along, are up to 40 feet tall.

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Marty picking his way along the rocky front of this hill.

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A good view of the columns, and Marty's hand.

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Lots of people wanted to climb on top of the columns at the edge of the sea.

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Dolores was one of them, carefully working her way across the broken stone.

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It was not easy.

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She finally gave up, and took a safer route.

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What the top looks like.

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Dolores about to join them.

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Checking to make sure we get pictures.

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Getting close.

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Very nearly there.

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Almost up.

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Hurray! She made it!

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And took a short break.

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Well, not that short.

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Dolores coming back the long way around.

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Marty, happy to have been here.

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Marty climbing down, Dolores climbing up.

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Another hillside by the bay.

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Looking out at another point.

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A close-up of that point.

On the Road
We saw this when we made a rest stop.

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