Loch Garbad Traditional Cache
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The 500ml tub is hidden on the western shore of Loch Garbad on the
Isle of Arran. The walk to the loch is on a well made path through
coniferous woodland, passing the Eas Mor (Big Waterfall),
with amazing views south over the island of Pladda to Ailsa Craig.
The distance is around 6km and will probably take a couple of
hours.
Loch Garbad means the loch of the rough place, but legend
has it that the hollow to the west of Cnoc na Garbad was not
always such a quiet lonely place. Back in the days when Arran owed
allegiance to the Lord of the Isles on Islay, and then to his
overlord the King of Norway this little glen was known widely for
its ceilidhs and parties. In those days giants lived here too and
one of them, Skorri by name, lived to the north of here in the
valley that takes his name, Glen Scorrodale.
Today Glen Scorrodale, on the Ross
Road, is a quiet place where Buddhist monks have a retreat house
but in those days the giant Skorri was constantly being disturbed
by the loud music and and sounds of partying coming over the
hillside from Garbad. One Hogmanay the folk at Garbad were
celebrating so loudly that they woke Skorri and in a rage he strode
over the mountainside and digging his great hands into the ground
he heaved the village of Garbad into the sea leaving a great scar
where the village had been. And so if you look closely we will see
that there is a strange similarity between the shape of Loch Garbad
and the island of Pladda where the village that Skorri tore from
the earth had landed with a great splash!
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
va gur ebpx snpr oruvaq n fgbar
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