What is now a fun tourist attraction in Northern Ireland near the town of Ballentoy used to be the means of getting to a very important salmon fishery for a hundred fishermen. When first erected the Carrick-a-Rede rope bridge was simply a thick rope spanning the 60 feet between ridges and 1,000 feet in the air. The fishermen would carry their equipment over in the morning and the fish they caught back in the evening, going hand over hand. This view is from the fisherman's island after crossing the Carrick-a-Rede bridge looking back at the mainland.