Caol Ila Traditional Cache
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An easy cache find, only a very short walk on a grassy path, which may be muddy at times dependent on the west coast weather.
Caol Ila is Gaelic for Sound of Islay and is pronounced Cull Eela. It is situated on the north eastern shores of Islay, with magnificent views across the Sound of Islay to the spectacular Paps of Jura.
Caol Ila is home to one of the 8 distilleries on Islay. Caol Ila distillery was founded in 1846 by Hector Henderson. The distillery did not fare well, and changed hands in 1854 when Norman Buchanan, owner of the Isle of Jura Distillery, took over.
In 1863 the business was acquired by Bulloch Lade & Co, of Glasgow, traders in whisky stocks. By the 1880s over 147,000 gallons of whisky were produced there each year.
In 1920 Bulloch Lade went into voluntary liquidation, and a consortium of businessmen formed the Caol Ila Distillery Company Ltd. In 1927 the Distillers Company Limited acquired a controlling interest in Caol Ila, and in 1930 Scottish Malt Distillers Ltd obtained ownership of all the shares. The company eventually became part of Diageo.
The distillery closed during World War II, from 1941–1945, because of wartime restrictions on the supply of barley to distillers. From then, production continued until 1972, when the entire structure of the distillery was demolished. A larger distillery was built in the same original architectural style, and production resumed in 1974.
Cache contents when placed on 1 March 2008 were:
Sound of Islay notelet
Packet of Crayons
Rubber
Shell from Caol Ila Beach
Scoobie
Reflector Keyring
Lucky 5-leaved clover travel bug
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Pbvaf ner abg npprcgrq urer, ohg guvf vf jurer gur pnpur vf arne. 26 fgrcf hc gur cngu bs tenff, naq lbh fubhyq or ol gur pnpur. Gb gur yrsg ng gur onfr bs n gerr - guvf vf jurer gur pnpur jvyy or.