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Another well known attraction of the village along with the
distillery is the salmon, each year these ocean travellers
navigate their way across the Atlantic ocean back to the Bush. How they find
their way still remains a natural mystery but if you enjoy watching
salmon jumping over rushing torrents of water then a visit to the
Walkmill Falls is well worth taking -
here the salmon encounter the biggest obstacle on their long
journey home. Years ago the salmon would have been caught by net
between the two bridges and some local elder's can remember the banks
being lined 'silver with fish', nowadays the runs are not so abundant,
the stocks are physically under threat from netting and over
fishing in the north Atlantic while biologically they are threatened by the introduction
and escape of farmed salmon. The village is recognised as the
gateway to the Giants Causeway and is in the process of developing a
cultural tourism strategy that will see the current two festivals,
The Causeway Hammered Dulcimer Festival and the Finn MacCool
Festival developed and two more festival introduced during the
Autumn and Spring. The Ulster Scots tongue is
part of everyday life in the village, this is marked and celebrated
by the Alphabet Angel, a bronze figure created by the sculpture Ross
Wilson through a community lead project. The first physical marker
to the tongue in Europe if not the world. |