GC2H0BQ An Port (Traditional Cache) in Ulster, Ireland created by miah505

GC2H0BQ ▼

A cache by miah505 Message this owner

Hidden : 10/19/2010

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Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

A traditional cache with the usual assortment of trinkets. Although it is accessible to any car the road is quite rough so take care. The scenery is dramatic and the abandoned houses could tell many a story of times gone by.

"Scarcely a year passes without leaving its record of shipwrecks along this dangerous coast. It is sad to reflect on the fate of the poor mariners as struggling among the high rolling surges, they appear ‘rari nantes in gurgite vasto;’ or, projected from the crest of a whitening breaker, they are left high and dry in some recess in the face of the precipice...... The escape under any circumstances, of the poor mariners thrown in upon these wild cliffs, is a contingency marvellous to reflect upon, and little short of miraculous. Nevertheless, the hardy shepherds of Purt and Glen Lacha, have often been rendered happy by being made the agents, under Providence, of rescuing many a poor seaman or ship-passenger from a watery grave. As the houses of Purt are built in a secluded, sheltered spot, they are not discernible from the sea-coast; and we may imagine to ourselves the feelings of the poor sailor when, after being snatched from the gorge of the billows, he fancies himself condemned to pine and die in the wilderness. ........ Or again, his comparative happiness, when he opens his eyes, and discovers his fellow-man in the person of the humane shepherd,who, in his search for what the storm may have cast ashore, meets the poor mariner,” From ‘The Cliff Scenery of South-Western Donegal’ by Kinnfaela.