File:Whisky Cave on Mull.jpg
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| Description | Angela, proprietor of the Gruline Home Farm (where we stayed after one night at Glengorm Castle) gave us a crude hiking map to the seaside, one that took us through abandoned crofting villages and near a hidden cave that was once the home of an illegal distillery. The bootleggers built up an earthen mound near the entrance to hide it from seafarers. The map to it was like an old pirate's map, and you had to visually line up the "Dutchman's Cap" of one of the Treshnish Islands with the flatter portion of another island, and then descend down a steep hill to find the cave entrance. I descended too soon, and ended up on a rocky beach strewn with kelp, and groups of shags (cormorant-like birds) nesting in crags in the rocks. Leslie decided to stay here and listen to the surf while I pressed on. I eventually found it, and took this photo from inside the mouth of the cave. The circle in the foreground was where the still was located, but in more recent years it looks as though its been used as a firepit by boozing teenagers. There were still timbers near the entrance that were apparantly part of the distillery. Sheep skulls littered the hillside on the hike back out. I ran into some senior British women at the top of the hill, who looked at the steep descent and decided for safety's sake not to go down to the cave. But they were pleased to see my "fresh" digital photos, and we all huddled together to mask the sunlight from the LCD panel on the back of my camera. Leslie and I really enjoyed this hike, and decided our future vacations would always have to involve some trekking in the countryside. |
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| Source | Whisky Cave on Mull |
| Author | Steve Deger |
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This image was originally posted to Flickr by Steve Deger at https://www.flickr.com/photos/69803582@N00/108328795. It was reviewed on 10 October 2007 by FlickreviewR and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-2.0. |
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