good afternoon youtube and welcome back
to the channel today i'm in north
ayrshire and i'm going to head to a
place called cleves cove
it's actually a cave system near a
little village called delray it's a
beautiful day here in scotland folks
we had a storm last night storm our
wounded calling it now you wouldn't
believe it to see it now but
there was a 1900 mile an hour once
there's actually some people killed
unfortunately
now we didn't feel it so bad heroes on
the west but the east coast of the
country was battled
now it's beautiful but it's cold
it's just above freezing at the moment
i'm gonna say maybe one or two degrees
so when you're riding on the bike
obviously you feel that
feeling much colder than that with a
wind chill
now i'm gonna pop in here this is
egglington country park we'll have a
quick look we're not going to be here
for very long
i'm not entirely sure
where i want to park here
let's get through these gates actually
that's busy right then looks quite
interesting somebody must have crashed
that and somebody's left it here just in
case they come back for it
what they find it looks like a little
kids
let's see if we can find it and
i got a little bit stuck back there and
that's our visitor center seems like
most of that seems to be shut
people are out walking around in the
woods and stuff you're unfamiliar with
this place i'm not sure exactly what way
to go so because there's lots of paths
we'll go this way because there's a
little
walk and stuff down an interesting
building
let's spread this called tournament
bridge the castle just sits over the
other side of here so there's not much
left of the original castle as you can
see
this used to belong to the
elves of eglinton
it was later controlled by the
montgomery clan a lot of kids and stuff
running around
doesn't look like much now folks but
this must have been some building back
in the day yeah
365 windows one for each day of the year
the outline of the castle is very easily
visible
and it's huge
you know it was very very big we said
that this was similar in stature to um
colleen castle they started work i think
17
late 1790s
completed about 1802
now the building itself fell into
disrepair in the 1920s
and the reason there's so little left of
it
is that during the second world war it
was used as target practice it's used by
the royal engineers
it was also used by the navy
they practiced their bombardments or the
gunnery here well it was obviously
undoubtedly important
they practiced blowing things up
and for the navy to practice some
gunnery
it's a little bit of a shame that
this
beautiful historic monument was
utterly destroyed
oh well kids still like it here at
eglinton the appeal seems to be the
countryside in the box
rather than coming to see the monument
itself right then
let's go
find these caves
it wasn't here for long folks takes
about time to put the door up and stuff
but
good morning
quite famous i'll be here i don't know
if it's that famous but we've got cool
morning i'll be here
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number 27 that's a nice house
a lot of house
you might see
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at this wow
lovely
very cool
what's this is an old mill as you can
see
there's now a museum
this is one of these country life
museums
you've got like the hotel and restaurant
stuff across the road now
i'd like to come back here
these old land rovers
that's something i read about the
eglinton country part there the the
british army left a whole bunch of
vehicles behind which will do some
buried
and semi-buried imagine using a country
house as target practice but i guess
it was already abandoned at that time
and it probably wasn't considered one of
scotland's most
um important
historic monuments let's just say that
not that there's anything wrong with
eglinton but look at the sky
my days
that's one thing i love about this time
of year see these uh clear skies that
you sometimes get in between the rain
that cold crisp mornings
purple skies i think i need to go left
i think
that's old railway bridge
i've gone to the sat nav i'm not too far
from here
but
these caves are right on the water folks
are right next to the river
that's the tunneling
there we go let's turn the bike
beautiful here
look at that sky
i've said that before but wow
now you've probably wondered why i'm
going to find these caves folks apart
from this uh natural interest in trying
to find a cave
there's quite a lot of harshly attached
to them some interesting little stories
and stuff
look at this
that looks promising there's a path
there
and there's a path there
now then
let's park the bike
see the top of that mountain there
that's actually aaron
yeah
i've got time i'll put the drone up
no promises though
we're in golden hour right enough
look at this little lane here
right then
let's go through here
it's not too far to walk yeah and i know
that because the satnav took me to this
person's house
and these caves are basically on the
property yeah
um but they very kindly said that it's
not a problem you can come here
everybody's welcome yeah but
obviously just
don't leave a mess or whatever
because they've had
a fair few issues over the years that'll
tell you about look at this
stunning
no camping and no fires
beware snakes
okay
yeah
that's that house there
i said that if i come from the house
straight down the hill
there should be a path
down in this direction
and the caves
are on this at a cliff side
running next to the river
let's see okay this is looking rather
promising
i'm guessing it must be along the side
of those cliffs on the left there
somewhere
you can stay in these boots already
put this camera away before i break an
ankle
okay so
it's worth noting when you're coming
down these hills carrying
cameras and helmets
and it's extremely slippy
don't do that
it might just fall
luckily
luckily i wasn't closer to the river
here
otherwise i would have had a really bad
day
yeah
now then let's see if we can see a cave
entrance
a small one go right
which means i'm going to be going along
that mud banking
let's go look
quite an obvious path here
apparently these run for about
500 feet
so they're not huge
they're certainly big enough i'm no
geologist yeah but these caves here
stretch for about 500 feet now parts of
them are caved in
and the owner of this property here
believes that they're much more
extensive
just uncovered
to be honest when i look at the
topography here
really odd shaped hills and stuff and i
think he's probably right to be honest
as you can see it's going to be dark any
minute
and i better get out here in case the
elves get me
that's a little story i'll tell you in a
second
right this is dusk glenn folks
and this little river here is dusk water
which means black water dusk
is when sun sets you know so we're quite
familiar with that one
so the coming hunters used to hide out
here
and they were persecuted for religious
reasons
yeah both
north and south of the border
so coming hunters used to hide out in
this cave
so around about 16 30
1685
so for quite a significant period of
time
when charles ii was on the throne
yeah
so the preacher paid and would come to
these types of glenns and preach to
people
and they would do it in places where
they could hide now
we talk about the covenanters being here
you know several hundred years ago
but there are charcoal deposits in this
cave that are
stone age you know
and there's also been a bronze ring
found and iron age spear tips so people
have been living in these caves for
you know time and memorial now the owner
here from this property
i was talking they kindly offered to let
me park the bike and stuff there because
everybody's welcome to come here
but try not to disturb folks try not to
make too much mess please tell me some
of the things that he's
he's fished out of these caves over the
years
rubber dinghies
guitars see those little candles and
stuff in there
if you want to come here and sing
kumbaya at least try and take your
guitar home with you because these are
at least somewhat relevant in the story
of the british isles folks there's also
been quite a significant amount of
damage
most of the stalactites and stalagmites
have been broken off and taken away as
souvenirs local legend has it the elves
live in this cave this is called elf him
hey meaning home these little elves come
riding out at dusk right around now
actually on horses that are the size of
mice
and they've got yellow here that are
tied back in knots with gold crimps
they wear green velvet clothes and they
drink wine from quakes now a quake is a
cup
in scotland yeah and they drink wine
whilst they're sitting under toadstools
they're all around me here actually
and so far all of that sounds quite
cutesy yeah little velvet jackets
drinking drinking wine under mushrooms
but these little elves are evil and it's
particularly bad around halloween
apparently
they come riding out with evil intent
believe it or not their arrows are
tipped with hemlock poison now i don't
know there must be hemlock around here
somewhere and their bows are made of the
rib cages of unbaptized babies
they were buried
and uh in the glen here
what a lovely bedtime story so next time
you come here with your guitar and you
decide to leave it behind or your rubber
dinghy just be careful anyway i better
get over here folks i think i can hear
the sound of tiny hooves what a way to
go
anyway that's it for this one i really
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