Grey Coast #1 Traditional Cache

This cache has been archived.

wicklass: It is with regret that I wish, the oldest of my caches to be archived. I re-visited it to check a recent DNF report and found the area to be very unstable due to landslips and now potentially hazardous. Wicklass

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Hidden : 8/29/2011
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
3.5 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Near cliffs, so wear sensible footwear. Children should be supervised. A beautiful spot with picnic tables an a barbecue area. Splendid coastal views.

The cache is at Latheronwheel harbour in Caithness (N 58deg 16min; W 3deg 22min) where there is good, safe parking. The final approach to the cache is an easy scramble up sloping ripple-marked Old Red Sandstone rocks. Take care if raining as the rocks can then be slippery. Latheronwheel is one of a string of small harbours on the east coast of Caithness where local people sailed out in small boats to fish for herring and white fish in the 19th and early 20th century. At one time 35 boats used the harbour, but now only three small lobster fishing boats are berthed there each summer. As you drive down you pass a historic arched bridge built in the mid 18th century on the old road north, part of General Wade’s attempts to bring the local inhabitants into line after Culloden. A very pleasant path takes you up to the clifftops and through a quaint revolving stile and on to a viewpoint where wives are reputed to have watched for the fishing boats of old returning with their catches. About 100 metres along the cliffs, marked by a wooden railing, is a hole in the rocks looking straight down into the sea, a so-called “gloup” where storms vent spray in winter months. Great care is needed on the cliffs and at the gloup and children should be kept beside you. The cliffs slightly further on are a popular local rock climbing area featuring in the North of Scotland climbing guidebooks. This cache can be combined with the “Ask Ivy” one, situated nearby in a very different habitat. The term “Grey Coast” comes from the title of the book by local author Neil Gunn(1891 - 1973) A statue commemorating his works is to be seen at Dunbeath Harbour.

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