Binocular Boys Bay Watching

- Backblip - Northern Ireland Day 10

What are very like! Spectacles raised, spying out the distance. Blip Advisor and D at Mussenden Temple on the North Antrim Coast. Binocular Boys and Blipping Girls all week - I really am on a quest to get P to start a journal.

The temple is based on the design of the Temple of Vesta at Tivoli, and sits dramatically on the very edge of the cliffs at Downhill. Completed in 1785, it is constructed of basalt and sandstone, which were brought along the coast by boat from Ballycastle. It was intended to be used as a library.

After lunch, our intention was to visit the Giant's Causeway, but we couldn't even get near the carpark. The locale was packed out with tourist buses, and a long queue of cars waiting for a space. So we drove back east and visited the Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge erected by salmon fishers to get across to a nearby island. It crosses a 30m deep and 20m wide chasm. We were all brave and did cross it, which gave a great opportunity to observe various seabirds including kittewakes, cormorants and fulmars. Some just couldn't do it - one man said his wife would go on any rollercoaster in the world, but just would not cross that bridge.