Giant's Causeway

Northern Ireland's most famous natural wonder, Giant's Causeway	Causeway Hotel	Model of the Giant's Causeway scenic area at the Visitor's Centre	The Giant's Causeway, UNESCO World Heritage Site
Bay of the Cows, the first cove on the path from the Visitor's Centre	The Giant's Causeway	The second cove, Port Ganny, Giant's Causeway	Tourists atop the basalt pillars of Giant's Causeway
The Giant's Causeway consists of around 40,000 basalt columns from an ancient volcanic eruption	The Giant's Causeway	The 3rd cove, Port Noffer, Giant's Causeway	The tallest columns are up to 12m high
Legend states the Giant's Causeway was built by Finn MacCool from the Fenian Cycle of Gaelic mythology	Each of the interlocking basalt columns creates step-like formations	Basalt steps, Giant's Causeway	Basalt steps, Giant's Causeway
The Giant's Causeway	Aird Snout rising above the Giant's Causeway	Most of the basalt columns are hexagonal, Giant's Causeway	The tip of the Giant's Causeway
Port Ganny, Giant's Causeway	...not the nicest of days, unfortunately...	The Giant's Causeway	Port Noffer, Giant's Causeway
Tourists climbing on the Giant's Causeway	Across the sea on the Scottish island of Staffa, there are similar basalt columns aiding the myth of the Giant's Causeway	Tourists climbing on the Giant's Causeway	Giant's Causeway and Aird Snout
Basalt columns formed from the contraction of cooling lava	Port Noffer, the Giant's Castle	Map of the Giant's Castle scenic area	Hiking to the east of the main feature of Giant's Causeway
Giant's Organ	Looking across Port Noffer to the Giant's Causeway and Aird Snout	Hiking path from Giant's Causeway to the Amphitheatre	The Amphitheater, Giant's Causeway
Climbing above the Amphitheatre	End of the trail at Port na Spaniagh	La Girona, a survivor of the 1588 Spanish Armada, shipwrecked on Spanish Rocks with only 9 survivors	Basalt cliffs above the Amphitheater, Giant's Causeway
Giant's Organ	Thistle, Giant's Causeway	Climbing the Shepherd's Steps to the top of the cliff	Giant's Causeway from the Shepherd's Steps
Path up to the clifftop, Giant's Causeway	Giant's Causeway from the top of the cliff	Giant's Causeway from atop Aird Snout	Giant's Causeway from atop Aird Snout
Tiny tourists scrambling on the Giant's Causeway	Port Noffer from atop Aird Snout	Looking east along the Causeway Coast from Aird Snout	The Giant's Causeway
Sheep grazing in the fields just beyond the fence, Giant's Causeway	Old farmhouses and green fields adjacent to Giant's Causeway	Giant's Causeway	Hiking back to the Visitor's Centre along the clifftop path
Weir's Snout	Bay of the Cows	Weir's Snout