Hiking to Greenan Castle

Paul and I set off with the kids in the evening along the shore for a bit of a hike. The kids found a couple sea shells and a golf ball to take home with them. We followed the shore until we approached the cliffs below the ruins of Greenan Castle.

We found a steep trail on the other side and decided to go up and see if we could get up close to it. When we got to the top we found that there was an easier, more gradual trail to the castle if we only walked another few feet while we were on the shore we could have spared ourselves the steep climb. We noticed that the castle had been bricked up but the bricks had been knocked open. Paul decided to go inside and see. When I looked inside it was a dark basement with a worn spiral staircase facing out towards the ocean.

However, the castle is in such disrepair that it's not much to look at from the inside. It's much prettier to look at from afar.

Here's a picture of me sitting on some of the ruins behind the castle. Sorry it's such bad quality it was taken by Paul's blackberry.

We carried on down a path that was covered in different sizes of thistles, wild rabbits were hopping around everywhere. The kids liked the rabbits but not the thistles, we had to pick them up at some points along the way. We also went down by the river and watched the swans. The kids tried to feed them oranges but the swans weren't interested.