JOYCEAN PICS 2008
Carrick-a-Rede
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  [FW 266.F2] Glens of Antrim
  Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge
  Rathlin Island
  Mull of Kintyre
  
CONTENTS 2008
   1  Tours IJJF Symposium 2008: "Re-Nascent Joyce"
   2  Tours and Joyce
   3  Tours: miscellanea
   4  La Maison du Vouvray
   5  Boat Trip down the Loire
   6  Chateau Royal or the Da Vinci Court, Amboise
   7  Paris and Joyce
   8  Paris: miscellanea
   9  Mont-Saint-Michel
  10  Dublin, Jew and Joyce: "Jublin"
  11  Dublin: miscellanea
  12  Athlone
  13  Clonmacnoise (Cluain Mhic Nois)
  14  Belfast: "You Are Now Entering Loyalist Sandy Row"
  15  Carrickfergus Castle
  16  The Hurry Head, East Antrim (Co. Antrim)
  17  Carrick-a-Rede
  18  The Old Bushmills Distillery Co. Ltd.
  19  Dunluce Castle
  20  The Giant's Causeway
  21  Seoul JJSK Conference 2008
  22  Seoul: miscellanea 2008

Carrick-a-Rede
24 June 2008

  
  Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge is a rope suspension bridge near, Ballintoy, County Antrim, Northern Ireland.  The bridge links the mainland to the tiny Carrick Island.  The site is owned and maintained by the National Trust, spans twenty meters and is thirty meters above the rocks below.  Today the bridge is mainly a tourist attraction, with 227,000 visitors in 2007.  The bridge is now taken down every year in late October or early November, depending on weather conditions, having been put up in March.  
  Carrick-a-Rede means "rock in the road."  It is thought salmon fishermen have been erecting bridges to the island for over 350 years.  It has taken many forms over the years.  In the 1970s it featured only a single handrail and large gaps between the slats.  A version of the bridge, tested up to ten tonnes, was built with the help of local climbers and abseilers in 2000.  The previous design was engineered in 2004 and offers visitors and fishermen alike a much safer passage to the island.  The current wire rope and Douglas fir bridge was made by Heyn Construction in Belfast and erected early in 2008 at a cost of over 16,000 GBP.  Although no one has fallen off the bridge, there have been many instances where visitors, unable to face the walk back across the bridge, have had to be taken off the island by boat.  The area is exceptional in natural beauty with stunning views of Rathlin Island and Scotland.  (Referred to the site of Wikipedia.)

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Glens of Antrim
       [FW 266.F2: "Glens of Antrim"] Glens of Antrim on the way to Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge.  Photos taken through the tour bus window.
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 (Tuesday 24 June) [FW 266.F2: "Glens of Antrim"] Glens of Antrim on the way to Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge
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 (Tuesday 24 June) [FW 266.F2: "Glens of Antrim"] Glens of Antrim on the way to Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge
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 (Tuesday 24 June) [FW 266.F2: "Glens of Antrim"] Glens of Antrim on the way to Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge
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 (Tuesday 24 June) [FW 266.F2: "Glens of Antrim"] Glens of Antrim on the way to Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge
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 (Tuesday 24 June) [FW 266.F2: "Glens of Antrim"] Glens of Antrim on the way to Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge
  
      
Carrick-a-Rede
      Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge is a rope suspension bridge near, Ballintoy, County Antrim, Northern Ireland.  The bridge links the mainland to the tiny Carrick Island.
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 (Tuesday 24 June) Sheep Island, viewed from Larrybane Car Park
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 (Tuesday 24 June) Carrick-a-Rede with Rathlin Island in the background, viewed from Larrybane Bay
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 (Tuesday 24 June) Knocksoghey Sill, viewed from Larrybane Bay
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 (Tuesday 24 June) Sheep Island, viewed from Larrybane Bay
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 (Tuesday 24 June) Carrick-a-Rede with Rathlin Island in the background, viewed from Larrybane Bay
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 (Tuesday 24 June) On the path to Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge
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 (Tuesday 24 June) Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge and Larrybane Bay
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 (Tuesday 24 June) Larrybane Bay
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 (Tuesday 24 June) Larrybane Bay and Sheep Island
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 (Tuesday 24 June) Carrick-a-Rede
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 (Tuesday 24 June) Larrybane Bay
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 (Tuesday 24 June) Gate to Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge
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 (Tuesday 24 June) Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge, viewed from the gate
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 (Tuesday 24 June) Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge, viewed from the gate
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 (Tuesday 24 June) Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge, viewed from the gate
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 (Tuesday 24 June) Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge
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 (Tuesday 24 June) Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge
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 (Tuesday 24 June) A scene viewed from Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge
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 (Tuesday 24 June) Chinese tourists from Beijing on Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge
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 (Tuesday 24 June) A scene viewed from Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge
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 (Tuesday 24 June) A scene viewed from Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge
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 (Tuesday 24 June) Carrick-a-Rede
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 (Tuesday 24 June) Carrick-a-Rede
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 (Tuesday 24 June) Carrick-a-Rede
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 (Tuesday 24 June) Fulmars in the nest of Carrick-a-Rede
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 (Tuesday 24 June) Fulmars in the nest of Carrick-a-Rede
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 (Tuesday 24 June) Larrybane Bay, viewed from Carrick-a-Rede
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 (Tuesday 24 June) Larrybane Bay
  
      
Rathlin Island
      Rathlin Island, viewed from Carrick-a-Rede
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 (Tuesday 24 June) Rathlin Island, viewed from Carrick-a-Rede
  
      
Mull of Kintyre
      Mull of Kintyre, Strathclyde, Scotland, viewed from Carrick-a-Rede.
  The Mull of Kintyre is the most southwesterly section of the long Kintyre Peninsula in southwestern Scotland.  The name is an Anglicization of the Gaelic name Maol Chinn Tire meaning "The rounded headland of Kintyre."  The area is home to an historic lighthouse and has been immortalized into the popular consciousness by the 1977 hit song "Mull of Kintyre" by Paul McCartney's band of the time, Wings.  McCartney owned a farm in this peninsula then.  Soon after I was told that the distant land seen across the Sea of Moyle is "Mull of Kintyre," I hummed the song with some local Irish people.
  
  
Mull of Kintyre
  
Mull of Kintyre, oh mist rolling in from the sea
My desire is always to be here
Oh Mull of Kintyre

Far have I traveled and much have I seen
Dark distant mountains with valleys of green
Past painted deserts, the sun sets on fire
As he carries me home to the Mull of Kintyre

Mull of Kintyre, oh mist rolling in from the sea
My desire is always to be here
Oh Mull of Kintyre

Sweep through the heather like deer in the glen
Carry me back to the days I knew then
Nights when we sang like a heavenly choir
Of the life and the times of the Mull of Kintyre

Mull of Kintyre, oh mist rolling in from the sea
My desire is always to be here
Oh Mull of Kintyre

Smiles in the sunshine and tears in the rain
Still take me back where my memories remain
Flickering embers grow higher and higher
As they carry me back to the Mull of Kintyre

Mull of Kintyre, oh mist rolling in from the sea
My desire is always to be here
Oh Mull of Kintyre

Mull of Kintyre...

Copyright (c) 1977 Paul McCartney
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 (Tuesday 24 June) Mull of Kintyre, Strathclyde, Scotland, viewed from Carrick-a-Rede
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 (Tuesday 24 June) Mull of Kintyre, Strathclyde, Scotland, viewed from Carrick-a-Rede




        


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