Blueprinting the Causeway
Would that the weather at the Giant's Causeway was as well-behaved today as it was when that picture was taken. I spent the entire day exploring the famous basalt columns with the Blueprint team -- mostly in the rain. Peter Woodman explained how the columns gained their characteristic hexagonal shape, while I narrated Ireland's age of volcanoes. After lunch at the Causeway Hotel, Natalie and Seamas set up a ramp-zoom shot at the edge of the coast. Again, in the rain.
Natalie seems to enjoy having me film pieces to camera in the rain. If it isn't actually raining, as was the case on the boat in Red Bay, she finds other ways to have me showered -- such as asking the coxwain of an RNLI lifeboat to steer directly into a force 10 gale so that it would break across the bow while I was standing there. Tomorrow, it's Clogherhead in county Louth. She'll probably want to film me down a well.
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Here's a picture I took last easter just off Fingal's cave in a kayak...
I'll lend you a dry suit for the well!
Lovely shots of the ANCIENT rock formations Hippy. Like they say, the camera never lies...
In the beginning, God created, Gen 1:1, God is not man, that he should lie. Num 23:19
In the beginning, Mendelssohn created the Fingal's Cave overture. What would they have used for filler on recordings of his Symphony #3 the Scotch if he hadn't?
Why bother to tell me the book and chapter? Does that make it somehow more potent? Only to one who believes the bible. As far as I'm concerned it's all made up by the Judean People's Front, or was it the People's Front of Judea.
The idea that those rocks are 6000 years old beggars belief. And the idea that you belive this because a mouldy old scroll says so is even worse. But it gets better yet, even those who believe in this mouldy old book can't agree on what it means.
Brits eat "toad in the hole." Here's one that's world class. How appropriate that it should have come from Darwin Australia.
Mark,
I hope you ARE aware that the "Toad" in the hole is actually a sausage....
However, you may not be aware that the Toxin from the Cane Toad featured in your link is actually a powerful hallucinogen, and the fuel for many an Australian teenage rampage. Apparently you lick the toads back, where the substance in question is secreted, and the rest is a trip man....
Sometimes i wonder if some of our fellow bloggers are afficionados of the amphibian...