As the path follows the coast in this area there are lots more trees - a geocache hiders paradise!
From here you get a really good view of Galloway House; a category A listed house. The house was begun in 1740 for Lord Garlies, sixth Earl of Galloway, to designs by John Douglas, assisted by John Baxter as site architect. Additions in 1841 were by the Edinburgh architect William Burn.
A high wall around the garden was constructed during the Napoleonic Wars by French prisoners of war.
The house and estate were owned by the Earls of Galloway until 1908, when they were forced to sell up. The buyer was Sir Malcolm McEacharn, who developed the garden. In 1930 the house and park were sold again to Lady Forteviot, widow of John Dewar, 1st Baron Forteviot, of the Dewar's Whisky family. She died in 1940, when the house became a hospital for men injured during the Second World War. Lady Forteviot's step-grandson, Edward Strutt, added to the garden, but in 1947 the house was sold to Glasgow Corporation, and until 1976 was a boarding school. After that it was sold back into private ownership.
The cache is a small petling tube hanging from a tree - log book and pencil inside
We hope you enjoy the caches along this walk from Garlieston bay to Rigg bay;
If you are walking towards Rigg Bay, you have just passed 'Garlieston to Rigg Bay - Dead Tree Forest' - Did you find it?
If you are walking towards Garlieston Bay, you have just passed 'Garlieston to Rigg Bay - The Bus Stop' - Did you find it?