Brought to you by your friendly neighbourhood
Maritime Geocaching
Association
Please note: The island is almost completely
private property. Please respect that on your visit. Do not cut
across lawns or people's house lots or fields on your visit; stay
on the roads, follow the shoreline and beaches, and usually there
are old hunting paths just inside the edge of the woods when the
shoreline turns into cliffs that meet the forest edge. These caches
are present on the condition of respect from visiting cachers.
Thankyou. 
Ironbound is so small it isn't labelled on many maps, but yet it
has gathered a lot of attention over the years.
- It was included in an Atlantic Film Board special on children
in remote communities called
You Laugh Like a Duck.
- It was the subject of the Land and Sea episode EbbTide
in 1982, with a followup
episode that aired in 2006.
- It was used as a basis for Rockbound, the 2005
CBC Canada
Reads winner.
- It was also visited by the author of
Windward Island for a book she wrote.
- It was used as a location in the film Deeply,
starring Kirsten Dunst and Lynn Redgrave.
This geocache is the first one hidden on the island.
Please Note: The cache is hidden on private property with
the permission of the property owner. However, if you seek this
cache, you assume all liability for your own safety and agree that
if you decide to fall off a cliff and break your leg the landowner
is in no way liable. The landowner also grants geocachers a right
of way to the cache from the shoreline only (which is the shortest
route). PLEASE DO NOT go up the main road on the island and then
cut down through the landowner's driveway and yard to reach the
cache location.
To reach the cache, simply follow the shoreline from the public
wharf. When you are almost abreast of it you will see a small
clearing. Leave the beach at this point and proceed to the
cache.
The cache is hidden under a structure that used to be suspended in
the trees, but which came down (in relatively one piece) some years
ago. There may be old boards with nails from part of a platform in
the area, so don't step blindly around the cache. If I get chance I
may clear the area out a bit this summer. Enjoy the view along the
shore as you walk.
Terrain is at 5 since you need a boat to reach the island.
Once there, the terrain is about a 2.5 for this cache.
