By hook or by Crook! Traditional Cache
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Cache sited along the Ulster Way betweem Clandeboye and Craigantlet will be a pleasant stroll to the cache and back within an hour. See below for advice on access.
A nice maintained strip of land which runs from Clandeboye estate to Cairn Wood/ Ballysallagh Forest in the Craigantlet hills. There is farmland to one side and a golf course to the other. You do not need to enter either, and listen out for the ‘four’!
There is a main path with some smaller tracks running off and rejoining at various stages. If you continue along the path past the cache you will come to a junction:
1) Up the hill to Cairn Wood and the caches of Trunk Call, Cairn Wood and Pussycat, or
2) Keep on the flat, bear right and walk to Helen’s Bay along other parts of the Ulster Way (passing close by to Crawfordsburn Cache and Crawfordsburn Glen Cache).
Not being an ornithologist, the area was awash with ‘birds’, though I reckon I identified, thrush, blackbird, wren and robin. The woods are mainly Beech and Oak, but even in Summer you should be able to get a good fix..
Access
The best and recommended entrance is on the Crawfordsburn Road from Clandeboye to Newtownards at a lay-by which can be found at:
N 54° 37.647 W 005° 42.902
Although there is access along the Ballysallagh Road, it is a fast bumpy road, and there is no parking where the Ulster Way crosses this road.
Access on foot could also be made from the Ballybarnes Road, but I would not advise parking on it. Better to park in the Cairn Wood/Ballysallagh Forest car park and come through the woods, longer but safer.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Pebbx bs gerr orfvqr tbys pbhefr, fvk srrg hc
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