I have walked several times to Murlough Bay from Ballycastle via Fair Head and the Grey Man's Path, many years ago now, as the joints are more reluctant to take on steep rock climbs these days and round the bottom of Fairhead can be extremely difficult and slow. The route is dangerous in places where you have to engage boulders, you should be equipped with good footwear, rainwear, drinks, snacks and a mobile phone in case of difficulties.

I follow the beach from Ballycastle to what is mistakingly known as Marconi's cottage (now a glass house, how this got planning permission is beyond logic) then on past the old coal mines and up onto the headland, you can go round the base but it is extremely slow, difficult and dangerous in places. The easiest route is by the top to the Grey Man's Path, here the legendary path descends through a ravine known as the Grey Man's Gulley or McAnulty's Hall Door. Not for the faint hearted or unsteady foot! but it will take you down to a boulder field and on to Murlough Bay.

The impressive vertical dolerite columns are surrounded by scree slopes which go down to the waters edge where there are the boulders the size of small houses. Now in case you get caught near there around dusk, there is a story about the Grey Man's Path and Mary McAnulty who used the path frequently to bring seaweed and driftwood up from the shore.