Life on the water

Carrick-a-Rede

Photos from our Carrick-a-Rede boat tour: the rope bridge from below, Kinbane Castle, sea caves, waterfalls and chalk stacks along the Causeway Coast.

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A big thank you to James Allen (our crew member and guide during the 2026 season) for providing us with most of these beautiful moments and pictures. Please feel free to check him out on Instagram: @orange_in_the_blue

The long cliffs around Mermaid's Waterfall.
Two guests in hoods watching the white pinnacle.
A white pinnacle of rock, with walkers on top.
Dark cliffs sweeping round to the castle headland.
A castle ruin on its headland under a stormy sky.
Guests at the rail as the dark cliffs close in.
A castle ruin on the rocks below a green hill.
A white chalk headland rising straight out of the sea.
Mermaid's Waterfall and its sea cave under the cliffs.
Leaving the cliffs behind in a curl of white wake.
Our wake running back towards a castle ruin on its headland.
A dark cave mouth in the cliff, its top lost in fog.
A grass-topped stack rising straight out of the sea.
Mist hanging over the tree-covered cliffs above the shore.
A small dog watching a tall sea stack from the rail.
A crew member watching foggy cliffs and a sea cave from the rail.
A crew member guiding guests past the cliffs and ruins at Kinbane.
A waterfall spilling down a wooded cliff into the sea.
A tall white sea stack against a sunburst sky.
A tree-topped headland with a waterfall dropping to the sea.
A chalk sea stack mirrored in flat calm water.
Children at the rail watching a fog bank roll over the headland.
A small tour boat passing a grassy rock stack, seen from above.
Green sloping cliffs along a calm stretch of coastline.
A sea stack in mist with a calm mirror reflection.
A huge white chalk sea stack framed between green headlands.
Carrick-a-Rede rope bridge over brilliant turquoise water.
Carrick-a-Rede rope bridge strung between cliffs above emerald water.
A white chalk prow rising sheer from the sea, a walker tiny at the top.
Kinbane Castle ruin on its chalk headland, seen from the water.
A white chalk prow rising sheer from calm water.
Sunlit chalk pinnacles and cave mouths below a green amphitheatre of cliffs.
The boat's wake trailing toward a distant cliffline and rock stack.
Approaching Kinbane, its headland and ruined castle from the water.
Walkers crossing the rope bridge, seen from the sea below.
A crew member and two guests sharing a thumbs-up on deck.
Carrick-a-Rede rope bridge seen from the sea between grey cliffs.
Guests at the bow rail looking out over a misty coastline.
Looking past the cabin to the cliffs and a big sky.
Our four-legged crew member keeping watch on deck.
Chalk-white and basalt-black stacks rising from the sea, mainland hills beyond.
A rocky headland with a hazy coastline stretching into the distance.
A castle ruin on the headland, framed by dark basalt sea stacks.

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