CAUSEWAY COAST ON A COLD DAY - BALLINTOY

 CAUSEWAY COAST ON A COLD DAY - BALLINTOY

So as it was my birthday on Sunday we had almost a week of fun around the coast as we couldn’t get sailing due to bad weather..but when you love the coast you will always find something to do that beats sitting onboard are going to the pub. Just get out there guys.

Ballintoy

Larrybane Bay

Portrush East Strand

Larry Bane Quarry

Chalk quarry which contains chert nodules, fossils and calcite crystals. Calcite crystals occur along joints in the chalk. They are often found weathered.  Was filmed for the Game of Thrones Series

Larry Bane Quarry

BALLYCASTLE TO GREENCASTLE SCENIC COAST OF NORTHERN IRELAND

  BALLYCASTLE  TO  GREENCASTLE

Why do people put there boats away for winter when it’s plain to see there is some awesome sailing to be had. So here we head to greencastle a place we havnt been to. Must say it’s a beautiful wee fishing port. We had lots of strong southerly winds but the Northern Irish coast kept the sea calm for us. Roll on the better weather so we can start clocking up big miles this trip. Since we have came back in October we have 400nm up...240 of those miles has been from January... not bad going in the North Atlantic for winter sailing. We can be kind of restricted because of were our port is...it’s surrounded by some very bad water.