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Published: July 18th 2010
Port Erin
Bradda Head cliff and Mliner's Tower. To
Port Erin (Manx: Purt Çhiarn) we arrived from Castletown. This town looks like a typical resort and pretty similar to Douglas or Peel, especially when visitor consider familiar view of promenade. Prior we intended to find bus to
Cregneash (Manx: Creneash) to see "living museum" that preserves old Manx life style, but we had to change our plans. We found out we have no any bus that day and were forsed to go overthere by foot. A local lad told us how to get there but we decised to resign because it was long distance and wheather got worser and started to rain. One of us spotted the Bradda Head cliff at the opposite side of the Port Erin Bay. It was Bradda Head with memorial tower milner's Tower at the top. To get there we had to turn back and go towards Upper Promenade in port Erin and cross it. To find a path directing us to cliff we had to have a word with local woman, she told us how to get there and we put into use what she said. There are a couple of paths to
Bradda Head and we chose this one that trailed along the cliff
Port Erin
Port Erin ridge. I can't remember now how it called but I know there was a botanical reserve and path run across. Bradda Head cliff rises up to 116 metres above sea level and sometimes we had to even climb but despite of distance and bad wheather condition we got to destination.
The Milner's Tower was built at 1871 by the residences of Port Erin to honour of William Milner, a Liverpool safemaker - shape seems a lock. This causes Milner's Tower looks different than the Corrin's Tower - we could get inside this tower and obviously we did it. From the top of Milner Tower we saw Port Erin, Calf of Man and surrouding areas, visibility was limited by the fog covers the hills. Paweł pulled up two beers from his magic bag and we celebrated next "captured" tower. Our relish haven't been long (one beer per head it isn't much) and we had to come back to port Erin to glance over the town. Eventually we came back to Peel through Douglas and in hotel room we drank more beers and what is predictable we visited in local pub at the later evening ;-)
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