June 19

June 19th (sunny and cloudy)
Today, after a ten-hour sleep, we drove to a suspension bridge over a salmon run on the Irish Sea. It was a lovely walk, but the bridge was not very scary compared to our suspension bridges. Again, scenery is spectacular along the coast. Next, we headed over to the Giants Causeway. I did not know what this was. It sounded like a large highway to me. This World Heritage Site consists of beautiful hexagon-shaped basalt formations and involves local folklore about a “giant” placing stones in order to walk across the Irish Sea from Ireland to Scotland to meet up with his true love.
We drove back into Bushmill, did some food shopping and ate our lunch in the Bushmill Whiskey Distillery parking lot amongst all the tour buses. I was speaking to the butcher about how everything is packaged more than home i.e. ready-made salads, sandwiches, etc. His comment was that everyone works such long hours. I asked him how many hours he works in a week. His reply - 72 hours. The tour was very interesting, but I still do not like straight alcohol. George bought a small whiskey for our own consumption.
Because it was 4 pm when we finished the tour, we decided not to drive to our next destination and instead camped for the night. Had roast chicken and potato salad, played crib, and settled in for the evening. We have a lot of driving tomorrow to get ourselves back on track.