Giant's Causeway

The Giant's Causeway is on the UNESCO list of World Heritage sites. It may be a superb natural formation or it might be the creation of the giant Fionn MacCumhail. Such is the legend. Fionn built the causeway to walk to Scotland to fight Benandonner, Scotland's own giant. The 40,000 basalt columns, in hexagonal shape, appear as stepping stones, some standing as tall as twelve metres. Fionn built the causeway, but returned home to rest from his arduous labors. Benandonner used the stepping stones to come to Ireland to surprise Fionn. Fionn's wife Oomagh, hearing the hostile giant approach, told Fionn to hide in the bed, and when the Scots giant arrived at their home, she convinced him that Fionn was indeed only her husband's small child. Benandonner fled, frightened to confront what must certainly have been an extraordinarily large giant to have fathered such a child!

We walked the entire site, despite the fact that there was bus transport. You see Candee descending the "Shepherd's Steps," one hundred and sixty-two in number. Luckily, we took the high path in, thereby avoiding climbing the steps. Believe me, the path back was strenuous enough. The body of water is the Atlantic Ocean.