Trunk Call 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. 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 (from the recommended parking site) past the cache you will come the caches of Cairn Wood and Pussycat after crossing the Ballybarnes Road.
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
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