Paddy's milestone
From a decent stretch of our coast this little mysterious rock is visible! But in reality, it's pretty big! 4km across!!! Ailsa Craig is an uninhabited island, protected bird sanctuary and a well known granite quarry producing curling stones. To me, it sits there like a giant "muffin" and that's how I refer to it most of the time :) :) :)
But it's nickname originates in a funny little story: "Legend has it that long ago one of the giants who lived in Northern Ireland was quarrelling with a giant who lived in Scotland and threw a ‘rock’ at him which didn’t quite make it."
At least geographically, it makes sense :)
Take care dear friends and have a lovely weekend :) :) :)
Paddy's milestone
From a decent stretch of our coast this little mysterious rock is visible! But in reality, it's pretty big! 4km across!!! Ailsa Craig is an uninhabited island, protected bird sanctuary and a well known granite quarry producing curling stones. To me, it sits there like a giant "muffin" and that's how I refer to it most of the time :) :) :)
But it's nickname originates in a funny little story: "Legend has it that long ago one of the giants who lived in Northern Ireland was quarrelling with a giant who lived in Scotland and threw a ‘rock’ at him which didn’t quite make it."
At least geographically, it makes sense :)
Take care dear friends and have a lovely weekend :) :) :)