Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Where are the leprechauns? (Ireland day 2)

Today was amazing!!! We got on a huge nice coach bus and drove up the coast all day. It was so refreshing and amazing to finally see the ocean and green! We have just been seeing mainly buildings lately so it was very nice to do somethings outside. We got to see a lot today. We stopped all along the coast. Then we went to the rope bridge. It was terrifying and awesome at the same time! It is this bridge made out of rope with a small wood plank on the bottom. It is 30 or 40 meters above the ocean and about 20 meters across. But it was windy like no other. The bridge rocked and swayed with the wind and I had to take tiny steps because i was so nervous. Then on the other side was this awesome island and it was fun to just explore for a little bit. When we went back across the bridge though it was even more windy! So that was definitely scary! but I loved it.
Then we got to drive around more and then we came to Giants Causeway. Incredible! It was so fantastic. I have seen pictures of it before, but I never thought that I would really be going there. It is all the pillars of rock that has been made volcanically some how. They are all different heights and there is over 40,000 of them. And how they counted all of them is definitely a mystery to me. I'm just very glad I didn't have to do it! ;) But it was so fun just to hike and explore all around them. It was very strange to think of how these could possibly be made. And it was NOT man made! All the hexagons are perfect and they all fit right together. It was so cool to see.
I love the Irish coast!

Driving down the coast
cute boats
This is the rope bridged that we crossed
The coast
Rope bridge!

Giants Causeway









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