A visit with Finn McCool!

At breakfast this morning in the hostel in Derry, we saw this flag. It was made by a visitor from Canada and hung in the window. There are flags representing other countries as well.

 

Then it was off to Portsrush and the Giants Causway.

Legend has it that Irish giant Finn McCool built a causeway across the sea to Scotland so he could challenge Scottish giant, Benandonrer, to a fight. When he arrived in Scotland he discovered that Benandonner was much bigger than he first thought. So he ran home to Ireland with Benandonner at his heels. He asked his wife to hide him. She told him to put on a baby bonnet and get in bed. When Benandonner arrived, he looked at the baby in the bed. He thought "If the baby is that big, his father must be huge". So he got scared and ran back to Scotland breaking the causeway as he went. All that is left is the part by the shore of Ireland.

The Little Red Dog has a whale of a time climbing on the rocks. 

We hiked all the way up to that point of land. I know what you're thinking "Patterson hiked all the way up there! He must be some kind of machine!!!" Well, I have to burn all those Guinness calories somehow. And the wife won't let me stay in the bedroom all day.

Here's the reverse view. That's the Giants Causeway way down there.
That's the closest I've been to Scotland. It's only 14 miles across the sea.

A nice Bushmills goes down easy after all that exercise.