Giant's Causeway

Another location we visited in Northern Ireland was Giant's Causeway. This one was full of Irish Folklore!

Cassandra, Zach, and I
The woman I asked to take a picture had a little trouble with the brightness

The story goes like this:
There is a giant in Ireland, and another in Scotland. The one in Scotland creates Giant's Causeway by throwing the interestingly-shaped rocked into the water until it stretches all the way over to Ireland. His plan is to fight and kill the Irish one. The Irish one, however, had gotten a glimpse of the Scottish one before hand, and knew that he was much, much smaller than his foe. He knew that he could not win. So, instead of fighting the giant, he dressed up as a baby. When the enemy arrived and saw this GIANT baby, he thought "If this is the child then I do not want to stick around to see the father!" He turned on his heels and ran straight back to Scotland, destroying the path across the water as he went. 

Giant's Doorway

What we see today is what is left of the literal "Giant's Causeway" (which is like a highway). 

Some scholars might argue the rock formations had more to do with lava and water combining and causing it to look that way.

I'm going to stick with the giant story, myself.