Today I start off with kind of a nature post again: In one of her recent posts the fanciful and funny irish myth about the so-called Giant's Causeways was presented very well by @ruth-girl.
She also explained the origin of this especially impressive part of the Irish coast and shortly dived into the surrounding fauna. To learn about all this I highly recommend her article!
I am not going to repeat anything of her great work, but I want to contribute some visual input, to somehow allow you all to experience this ingenious natural scenery! For this I tried to recreate my visit from last summer:
Visiting the Giant's Causeway
To get to the modern Visitor Center we had to turn onto an inconspicuous side street and followed it for a few minutes. As usual we drove through the calming evergreen landscape of Ireland. As we approached the coast, we arrived on a quite extensive parking lot in front of the modern visitor center.
It was designed in a way that it can be seen well from the land, but is almost invisible from the coast. This was done in order not to interrupt the natural beauty of the coast. Next we bought our access cards to the near Giant's Causeway and also visited a small exhibition about its history and geology. On leaving the Visitor Center on the back we got a personal audio guide and free one-ear headphones, the second can be kept afterwards.
Next we already got the first glimpse of the impressive coast:
click to enlargeWe turned to the left, walked along the coast and found an interesting map:
click to enlargeSo there is not only the Giant's Causeway but also the Giant's Chimneys - and there is even the Giant's Organ, which can not be seen from this side. Funnily, the 'Stookans' are known as the windiest place in Ireland. After a week's trip along the Irish coast, with permanent and mighty winds, this information hit my humor center. It seemed to me like choosing the king among the kings.
With the next photo I tried to catch the same scenery like on the map depicted.
click to enlargeNext we headed to the Giant's Causeway - all images can be enlarged:
Here the Giant's Chimneys can already be seen in the very back.
And here it is. The well visited Giant's Causeway.
The Giant's Causeways very end.
As a partial surface scientist, I immediately loved the hexagonal pattern!
The weather was not very stable, but the scenery amazing!About every 50 m we saw staffers of the Visitor Center. They serve to inform the visitors and to rush to rescue in case of accidents. As you can imagine the continuous erosion ensures that the stones are all extremely smooth. Then they are often wet too and the visitors are literally of all ages! Hence it is not surprising that one of the employes told us, that they sometimes have to call the ambulance three times a day during the peak season in summer!
The Giant's Organ stone formation a few hundred meters further.We continued down the coast trying to also reach the Giant's Chimneys.
This is the best view we got on the Giant's Chimneys.The weather forced us to turn around and to head back towards a safe haven, so we unfortunatelly could not visit the gigantic chimneys any closer.
Finally, two pictures as the weather got better on our way back again:
All images were taken either with the cam of my
Honor 5C smartphone or a GoPro4 Black.
mountain.phil28
Definitely will schedule this on my next trip to Ireland.
Yeay, that seems reasonable to me. :)
Aaah! I was waiting for this!
It's amazing how these formations were perfectly shaped and most importantly naturally made... The causeway looks like a man-paved path.
I hope you didn't slip on any of those rocks... and kept it a secret to save you from us making fun of it :P
Have a great day @mountain.phil28!
I hope you did not have to wait to long and that you enjoyed it. x)
Yeah.. It's indeed extremely impressive standing on this crazily perfect pattern.
Nah, I was really lucky wearing my anti-slippery hiking shoes. My colleague provoked some heart-stopping moments running around on this formations his basic running shoes. xD But we both returned back home fine. :P
Thanks for reading + having a look @ruth-gril!
It was a nice tour of the place! The scenery is so different from what I'm used to living in a Mediterranean country...
Steem on @mountain.phil28! :D
As a fellow aspiring geologist, I cannot wait to get to visit Ireland (well, the UK in general) and go this geological spot. I'm hoping that I'll be able to fund that trip sometime soon! Great article!
Thanks for your comment! I wish you good luck so that you can visit these countries soon. ;)
It is really worth a journey! - Since I drove along almost the entire Irish coast I could provide some more posts about interesing and impressive spots there. Of course only if it does not painfully increase your wanderlust. :P
Best,
mountain.phil28
woohoo so wonderful, great job sugarplum :D ha ha i so get the king of kings LOL
The Giant's Causeways, is stunning, love it :D like walking on puzzel :D ha ha you should have used some of the pictures by them self ;) they desirve that ;) :D I suure enjoyed it & thanks for bringing US :D :D
Thank you very much for the compliment. :) - Glad you enjoyed "the trip". :P
<smirk^^
Lovely photos! Columnar basalt is one of my favorite geological formations.
Thx! I guess so, this is not hard to believe. 😎
Well, Ireland seems to be a beautiful land to visit. Thanks to share ^^
Yess indeed! It is worth a travel! - Take you time for hiking and also for listening to music in Pubs. 😎🤗
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