I couldn't place a cache in Glen Maye & NOT encourage you to walk down to the beach! The main feature of this walk is the towering cliffs on the northern side of the river. These are home for many species of seabird and hawks but in particular for the fulmars which nest there.On a good day if you're lucky, you may get to see seals swimming in close to the shore.
At one time it was possible to drive down the road at the side of the glen almost onto the sea shore itself, but in the late 1800s it was said that access to the shore via the road was so narrow that there were passing places for one horse only.
To hire a horse and carriage for the day, to take you from Douglas to Glen Maye, at the end of the 19th century would have cost 12s 6d.
After enjoying the walk down through the glen, visitors emerging onto the sea shore could visit a little grotto in a small artificial cave, or chat with the resident hermit who happened to be an elderly Manx man paid by the owner of the glen to sit in a cave and read his Bible. The cache can be found just outside the cave, though there is no hermit in there these days!
Tweezers may be required, please bring your own pen & make sure the cache is replaced exactly as found. It gets very windy there.
Cache placed with the kind permission of the landowner