Life on the water

Carrick-a-Rede Tour

Photos from our Carrick-a-Rede boat tour from Ballycastle: the rope bridge from below, Kinbane Castle, chalk cliffs, sea caves and waterfalls.

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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

On the radio in SELKIE's cabin.
Crew at the bow, coming back into Ballycastle.
Coiling the mooring rope back in the harbour.
Guests and crew along the rail, eyes on the shore.
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.
Crew and guests watching the cliffs slide by.
At the helm, steering in close to the cliffs.
Our skipper at the helm, cliffs out the window.
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 little yellow boat heading out of Ballycastle harbour.
A small pod of dolphins riding alongside, cliffs behind.
Two dolphins surfacing with a splash.
A dolphin's fin and pale underside breaking the surface beside the boat.
A dolphin's fin breaking the surface close beside the boat.
A dolphin surfacing beside the boat, its blowhole clear in the spray.
A dolphin surfacing beside the boat, its blowhole breaking clear of the water.
Dolphins surfacing together out on the open sea.
A dolphin surfacing beside the boat, seen from directly above.
Cormorants or shags lined up along the rock edge.
Three dark seabirds perched on rocks, one with its head tilted up.
Three dark seabirds perched on the rocks above the water.
Two diving birds swimming close together.
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.
Two dolphins surfacing close together, coastline behind.
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 crew member chalking up Friday's sailings outside the harbour office.
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.

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