I have walked to Murlough Bay via the Grey Man's Path at Fair Head, many years ago. The route is dangerous in places, I  follow the beach from Ballycastle on past Corrymeela Centre and the old coal mines to the end of the road. From  from here on it's the Grey Man's Path to Fair Head, the path finally ascends through a ravine known as the Grey Man's Gulley or McAnulty's Hall Door and onto the plateau above. The impressive  vertical dolerite columns are surround by scree slopes which go down to the waters edge where there are the boulders the size of small houses. The path from McAnulty's Hall Door crosses a moor land environment with some exceptional viewpoints. The linear scoring on the exposures of  smooth glaciated rock reveal the source of this landscape, as the ice retreated some 10,000 years ago it formed the topography that we see today in the Glens of Antrim. Murlough Bay is well known for its flora, fauna and geology, a curved limestone cliff protects one of the few remaining old 'natural' temperate woodlands in Ireland. Birch, Rowan and Hazel thrive in a micro-climate which contrasts with the barren moor land plateau above.

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