Ambling along Antrim

The Antrim coast is on the north coast of Northern Ireland. In fact, if you squint, you can see Scotland from your cottage. Legend has it that a giant named Finn McCool wanted to dual with a Scottish giant, so he plunked these stone columns into the ocean to form a land bridge to Scotland. But upon seeing the superior size of his opponent, Finn ran back to his Irish cottage and his clever wife swaddled him in baby blankets. When the Scot arrived looking for Finn, he saw this huge baby and surmised that the baby's father (presumably Finn) was even giant-er! So the Scot ran back to Scotland, tearing up the bridge along the way. You can still see the hallmark basalt columns at Giant's Causeway in Ireland and Fingal's Cave in Scotland!

Of course, if you want to believe in science, there's an alternative explanation. Somewhere between 50-60 million years ago, a volcano burped a splosh of lava that formed a lake. When thinner sheets of lava cool, they create the sheets of igneous rock that we're used to seeing (remember those videos of the slow-moving lava that you saw in grade school?). But when these large volumes of lava in lakes cool slowly, you get regular polygonal columns of basalt that form. Analogously, think of mud that dries slowly to create cracked dirt.

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Eons of weathering have created the World Heritage Site that is Giant's Causeway.

They say that the formations are continuing to develop! In fact, my very steps influenced their destiny. I feel very impactful.

Also, I found an organ for Whitney to play!

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Afterwards I headed over to Carrick-a-Rede, which is a tiny island from which fishers have been catching salmon for the past centuries. For the last 350 years, a rope bridge has connected the island to a mainland. I don't know if the bridge is still used by fishermen (probably not, as the Atlantic Salmon is now endangered), but money is made off of tourists (like me) who cross the bouncy bridge and then meander around the island.

I convincingly feigned fear.

Bonus: nearby water cave that probably houses a horcrux.