Herb Riddle's photos with the keyword: Giant's_Causeway

A walk to this famous spot is a bit overwhelming and soon the clicking of one’s camera gets out of hand. Here you see a selection from the main hot-spot along with the many tourists. Enjoy full screen

So, we have arrived at the Giant’s Causeway in Northern Ireland itself. Perhaps too much to take in, in any one photo, especially with the hoards of tourist that were clambering on every square meter of rock, or so it seemed. Here we see a few of the 40,000 interlocking basalt columns without human interference. Just over the top horizon is the sea with the coastal hills to my left. Don’t worry if you want to see a bigger view of all this as I will surely give-up to the pressure of sharing. Essential full screen

As we continue our easterly direction walk to this UNESCO World Heritage site we begin to see the crowds and basalt rock columns. We were to join the throng and have our picnic there too. Another phone photo, even though I had my big camera swinging from my neck on this slippery surface. ~ The Giant's Causeway is an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt columns, the result of an ancient volcanic fissure eruption. It is located in County Antrim on the north coast of Northern Ireland, about three miles northeast of the town of Bushmills. ~

As we progress east towards this World famous landmark we start to see the background clifftops and very distinctive rock formations of Benbane Head which looks down onto the causeway. At the moment we are by ourselves on this path but we were to join the throngs of other tourist shortly. Until then enjoy this view with me. See Pip for closer view showing the Organ Pipes too. Essential full screen

We are walking here from the harbour town of Portballintrae to the famous Giants causeway. Alongside us is the ‘Bushmill Railway’ line, a two mile stretch from the whisky town of Bushmills to the Giants Causway. It used to be the old tramway but now has a small diesel locomotive running three days a week that we unfortunately never saw. Across the bay is the rather nice Runkerry manor house. ( A description of that can be seen in the previous photo). Our way leads us in front of the house and around to its back left to climb the hill in the background. Nice full screen

Runkerry House is one of Northern Ireland’s grand country homes, a landmark Victorian-era manor overlooking the ocean near the Giant’s Causeway. Built by Edward Macnaghten in 1885, it boasted 20 bedrooms, 5.6 hectares (14 acres) of gardens and a beautiful location by Bushfoot Strand in Portballintrae, County Antrim. It has embodied not just grandeur but generosity because in 1950 Macnaghten’s son, Sir Malcolm Macnaghten, gifted the estate, worth £3.25m in today’s money, to Northern Ireland’s government. But there was, it turns out, a less than philanthropic reason for such munificence. Newly declassified documents reveal Macnaghten, an MP and high court judge, wanted to keep the property out of Catholic hands. As we passed it, it was clear that extensive renovation work was being carried out. Nice full size.