{"id":13106,"date":"2013-04-09T08:25:59","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T07:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13106"},"modified":"2013-04-09T08:41:01","modified_gmt":"2013-04-09T07:41:01","slug":"geocaching-on-empty-in-the-isle-of-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/04\/geocaching-on-empty-in-the-isle-of-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Geocaching on empty in the Isle of Man"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a long day and night travelling to the Isle of Man<\/a> we didn’t want to waste a day of our holiday catching up on sleep, so we had breakfast when we arrived at Anna’s Mums and then headed off for a day out.<\/p>\n

We had a geocache or two planned, the sun was shining and we hadn’t been to the island for a while so had to check out the usual places. We made a packed lunch, made room for Pat in the car and set off. First stop was a cache in Foxdale. There was still quite a bit of snow around up here and the sides of the road still had a few drifts. Morgan and I jumped out and found the cache fairly easily. The first on the Isle of Man for this trip so we were off.<\/p>\n

We had planned on taking the road past the South Barrule Plantation over to Niarbyl for an interesting looking geocache there but the road was closed due to snow. Parts of it had been cleared but there were 6-8 foot drifts lining the sides of the roads and presumably further up the hill it was still impassable. Instead we headed down towards St Johns and then around via Glan Maye, stopping at a few little geocaches along the way. There was plenty of deep snow along the road here as well, but the road itself was clear. The road down to the shore at Niarbyl was a river thanks to snow melt but we parked at the bottom and scrambled across the wet slippery seaweed covered rocks to the island to find and ‘offshore cache’ that is only accessible at low tide. It was easy to find but a good fun cache in a lovely spot.<\/p>\n\n\t\t