The Giant's Causeway

We drove to the coast to the Antrim Coast to see The Giants Causeway, 40,000 basalt columns formed by volcanic action rising out of the sea.

The story goes that the Causeway was created by an Irish giant named Finn MacCoul. He and his rival, Benandonner, who lived in Scotland, would shout across the sea to each other. To prove his superior strength, Finn decided to fight his rival. He built a pathway of stepping stones from Ireland to Scotland, but was so exhausted by the work that he fell asleep on the causeway. When Benadonner came over to fight, his wife saw how large he was and placed a blanket over her sleeping husband. When Benadonner demanded to see Finn, she pointed to Finn sleeping under the blanket and said, “Be quiet or you’ll wake my baby”. Seeing how large Finn’s “baby” was, he had second thoughts about meeting his giant father and fled back to Scotland tearing up the causeway as he fled.