A View of Mullion Island Traditional Cache
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The Lizard is a National Nature Reserve. Near the cache site is an excellent information board telling you about the reserve. So please take care of the special environment.The cache has been placed with the kind permission of Natural England.
Park in one of the Mullion Cove car parks and walk down to the Cove. Alternatively, you can combine this with a longer coast path walk.
Before you go south on the coast, visit Porth Mellin or Mullion Cove. This has been owned by the National Trust since 1945. The harbour piers were only built between 1893 and 1895 by Lord Robarts and it costs so much to keep repairing them that the decision has had to be taken to plan for a managed retreat. Keep clear off the piers in stormy weather because they are very dangerous when the sea breaks over them.
The path is very steep and the cliffs are high so take care, especially if you have children or dogs with you. Be particularly careful if it is wet or windy. We set the cache in early December 2009 when the paths were practicing to become streams.
Mullion Island is half a mile off shore and is a mile round. This part of the coast is made up of volcanic rocks so the island is a pillow of lava. People have never lived there. It is a conservation area owned by the National Trust and there is a colony of fulmars, kittiwakes and gilimots living there. Through binoculars, you can also see huge tree mallows and the occasional peregrine hunting along the cliffs.
. The cache is a click and lock box big enough for swaps and trackables. The starting inventory includes a nice ‘First to find’ geobag, ‘Gimme five’ travel bug and ‘Elementry’ geocoin. Arthur Conan Doyle stayed at The Old Vicarage in Mullion while he wrote the Sherlock Holmes story The Devil’s Foot. Craig-a-bella, to the north of the nearby Poldhu Cove, is mentioned as the ‘little whitewashed house’ where Holmes and Watson stayed.
Please take care to hide the cache carefully after you have found it.
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