The campsite was good, even had shower and washing machine for those that need them.
The night was cold, the day started with clear sky but gradually clouded over.
Tin of spaghetti and bread for breakfast then pack a frosty tent and get moving to get warm, a nice stroll across the wildlife area including through a small forest was nice and in the beam of rising sun it was promising to get very nice. A little bit of road walking soon had me approaching Harlech, a cafe open sign board led me to a cafe closed, so i continued uphill around the castle which is impressive.
I did meet a chap in the town centre who assured me no cafe would be open this early, anyway i happened upon a newspaper shop that provided a sausage roll, following the cycle route out of town luck struck in a small shop adverting a coffee machine. As the tide wasn’t fully in i could probably have walked along the shore but taking this high route gave some magnificent views back towards Porthmadog and the Snowdon range behind it which is still sporting some patches of snow.
A nice long gentle descent took me back to the coast at Llandanwg where i could get back on paths and very nice they were to around the little estuary/inlet (where do you draw the line between these two), hiking brings one across some curious sights and today was no exception.
Again the day included a few rail crossings, at Llanbedr its take a small road out towards shell island then back onto paths, well the path was closed for maintenance so i just went out to shell island and checked with compass that the sun was roughly due south and set off across the dunes, and what a magnificent area for wild life, it is massive and the possibilities for a wild camp are pretty limitless (and as you may guess i saw no one). the dunes surround a disused airfield and eventually i converged with the path at the southern end of the airfield and went through a static caravan park at Llanenddwyn making my way towards Tal-y-bont, finnaly converging with a cycle route towards Barmouth. While traveling down this road i noticed some Welsh cows have impressive horns.
on the sea front i came upon a kiosk advertising nice tea, the man was chatty and told me about his kiosk being burnt down a couple of years ago (arson) and how with friends help it was rebuilt in a day, he had a sign about prices varying according to how nice customers were (don’t be rude) and i got some free biscuits, the town provided a late cheap meal and i decided it was time to take a break.
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