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Lovely day today!
We got to sleep in a little bit since we were in no rush to catch busses or anything. We got up around 9am, to the sound of cows gently moo-ing outside our window. Yep, hello rural UK. I had a good laugh though – I love it.
(Sidenote: hostel guy was telling us they were late letting them into the gate-area this morning, so they were all bunched up against the fench moo-ing their displeasure. I guess we slept through that)
Hostel had free breakky, but like real breakky with eggs, bacon, sausage, beans and toast. After we had our fill we puttered around until 10h50 to catch a bus up to Carrick-a-rede bridge... we decided to lug our stuff around with us because we didn’t trust hostel guy to still be there when we had to come pick it up. Good thing we just had our day-packs and not our big backpacks with us.
So... the bridge. Once again we had to pay... really wish we read all that online before hand, but hey, so be it. The bridge is kind of dinky lol. There’s a nice walk along the coast to
it, but the actual bridge is nothing that amazing I don’t personally think. You’re not that high up and it’s so short (20 meters), but it is fun to kind of bounce along (not jumping, the bridge is just really bouncy when you walk).
On the other side of the bridge you’re basically on a huge rock cliff – we took some more photos there and I watched the seagulls for a bit – they were nestled into the side of another huge rock. The view was nice along the coast, but there was a bit of cloud cover and haze... There’s a big island in the distance that you normally can see quite well but in our photos it looks like a great big fuzzy blob haha.
We had our picnic lunch while waiting for the bus and then set off to White Park Bay which has a great big beach – looking beach, no swimming allowed not that you would want to in this weather anyway haha.
The bus lets you down in the middle of nowhere on the main road/highway thing – we’ve got quite used to that, so we just wandered our way
down towards the water. There was a really cute sheepdog bouncing along one of the fences – teehee – and of course there were cows, cows, cows. As we joined the path to walk down to the beach we also noticed the cows were leaving beautiful patties everywhere for us. Why thank you cows.
The beach area was quite nice – Em got to see the Atlantic Ocean for the first time... exciting!! It was too cold to put our feet in, but I did make her go touch it at least; feel the ocean 😊 The water was cold indeed. We spent quite a bit of time there though, taking pictures and goofing off as we do. We tried to do jumping pictures without much success... but then again the sand was sinky and it started to rain so we were in raincoats too... not the best jumping gear around haha. The sand was great to write in though!!
We walked back up through some of the sand-dunes and waited for a bus back to Coleraine – caught it no problemo and only had to wait about 30min for our bus back to Belfast. I really, really,
REALLY wanted to nap on the bus but by the time I got comfy-cozy some kids got on the bus and sat right beside me and Em ... of course they were squealing and yelling the entire time. No naps for us.
Back in Belfast we had a low-key night. We all know how I enjoy my low-key nights while travelling. Em decided to go play some trivia downstairs – she said it was a lot of fun, but their team came in last 😉 Meanwhile I contented myself upstairs figuring out a game plan for tomorrow and just checking up on things. Good night to be had.
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