Cache area
The cache is placed at the Doonamo point on the Mullet peninsula. It is quite remote area, missed by the crowds of tourists. Once there was a promotory fort on the cache site, but today you can't see much except remnants of some banks. But the coast around is beautiful, with high cliffs washed by the waves of the Atlantic. There is a nice view of the Eagle Island with the lighthouse from the cache site. On a clear day you can overlook the Mullet Peninsula to the south, or even further south you can see the high mountines of the Achil island. There is a modern sculpture nearby, don't forget to visit it. There is a hole down to the sea incorporated in this monument and again a very nice view of the coast. This monument is part of the Tir Saile North Mayo Sculpture Trail. We saw a few of these sculptures and we can really recommend the visit. Not only they are nice and interesting, but they are all placed in a nice scenery. (The monument near the cache is not listed on this website, probably some monuments were added later.)
Placing the cache
We decided to place a cache somewhere on our holiday trip to the west coast. One thing was sure - it would be somewhere on the coast. This is because we really like the sea, that's something we don't have at home in Central Europe, fascinating for us with its wildness, cliffs, tides and roaring waves. We considered several places, just chosen by looking in the road atlas. These places were Finish island in Co. Galway, tip of a peninsula in the Clew Bay, peninsula at Claggan point in Trawmore Bay... All these places are nice, but there were some problems with placing the cache. Then we came across this place and we really liked it and decided to put the cache here.
Name of the cache
And what about the name of the cache? Well, this is the last cache we placed in Ireland before we moved. We really love this country and felt like home already. The cache should be thanks to the Emerald Isle and its people (and geocachers!). Thanks for all the times we had...and we did have times! (And also thanks to our dear friend Stevie Ward, who taught us this phrase :-))
