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This cache brings you to a small beach within the walls of Carlingford Harbour. It affords the finders spectacular views in all directions, Slieve Foy, King Johns Castle, the Lough and the Mournes to name but a few things.
A medieval town with an immense background, and an even bigger future, with it's breathtaking scenery, including Carlingford Lough, the Mourne Mountains,("sweeping down to the sea"), the Irish Sea, and the Isle of Man, viewable with the naked eye, from certain vantage points on the mountain walks, which tower above the town. It is situated between, or about an hour's drive from either Dublin or Belfast Airports, taking you through some of the most invigorating greenery to be found anywhere on this earth. When country singer, Johnny Cash, sang about Ireland, he sang about it's 'Forty Shades of Green', and believe me, if you spare yourself the time, you can count them. The area hosts an ever increasing array of recreational activity to suit from the very active to the very 'laid back' individual. It has bistros, gourmet restaurants, and pubs, simply 'bursting' with 'craic',and the most recent addition to the town has been the opening of a new dining room and lounge facility at the marina, which takes full advantage of the magnificent scenery. The marina itself has a capacity for about 80 boats at present, but there are plans on the drawing board to increase this to 250 and the plans also include shops, a hotel, and apartments. In recent times many journalists and media people in general, whilst searching for adjectives to describe both the beauty and 'buzz' of the area, have called it the 'new Kinsale', and while not wishing to detract from what is obviously intended as lavish praise, nevertheless, Carlingford is much more unique,and more deeply stamped in the annals of time, than many of the much more established tourists areas. The cache is a camofluaged micro container. Carlingford can be a very busy wee town so please take care when replacing the cache to prevent it's location being discovered by muggles. There are benches nearby which offer a good vantage point from which to veiw the harbour, castle and Mourne Mountains. this was once part of a series called louth beaches, that series is now defunct and the bonus cache is now archived so please ignore the code contained in the cache
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Whfg cnfg gur fgbar orapu, zbir bar fgbar