Reap The Wild Wind Traditional Cache
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Immense views of mountain, moorland, forest, lowland plain and big big skies come free with this cache and dash located at Dunbeg wind farm which is situated in a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Cache title from a song by Ultravox (1982)
Everyone has their own opinion about wind farms. I have come to think that some of them have a certain grace. My favourite time to visit this one is on one of those days of sunshine, showers and low thunderous cloud that we know so well here on the north coast of Ireland. The power of the huge blades threshing the wind feels immense, but skylarks still perform their distinctive song flight and jack snipe still arrow away from the marshy pools by the road like sidewinder missiles. Dunbeg wind farm is located just north of the A37, midway between Limavady and Coleraine on a site currently utilised for both commercial forestry and upland moor used for grazing of livestock. A planning application and Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) was lodged with Planning Service in December 2007. Following consultation with a number of statutory and non-statutory bodies, the application was refused planning permission in February 2010, and an appeal was subsequently lodged with the Planning Appeals Commission (PAC). Following an informal hearing, the PAC gave planning permission in January 2011. The project was commissioned in 2014 and cost approximately £58m. The land is leased to Gaelectric by a small number of landowners who receive an annual income from the development. Over the operational lifetime of the wind farm it is expected that approximately 1,456,963 tonnes of carbon dioxide will be displaced. This calculation is based on the current energy generation portfolio of Northern Ireland. The development provides green renewable power to the equivalent of 23,000 homes. The cache is located on the Bolea Road and can be accessed from either the A37 or the Windyhill Road, an old highwayman's pad known locally as the Murder Hole Road. Personally I prefer the latter as the views are better and the Bolea Road at this end has been resurfaced. You can park on the roadside at the cache and muggles are of the rare lesser spotted variety. After Entrance 3 the road becomes quite narrow and winding until it meets the A37, cache and dashers entering via the Windyhill Road may prefer to turn here and rejoin it. The cache is a plastic tab top box in a camo bag. It contains a log book, pencil and a few small swaps. Any logged finds without a corresponding signature on the log will be deleted.
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Sebz cvyyne gb cbfg.
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