out and about - 2018
13 May 2018 .............. Braich-lwyd
An evening walk round a small bit of the coastal path which I hadn`t really realised existed until I saw a picture of a bit of it on the Twitter account @WalesCoastPath - it was a good couple of hours out.
Starting to head out away from Porth Cwyfan, and a good view across to St Cwyfan`s Church - nowadays it is on an island except at low tide - funny to think that when it was built, that bit of land was well connected to the mainland, and in only a few hundred years the sea has eaten it all away - the wall round the church is man`s attempt to keep the sea at bay for a bit longer.
Out on one of the headlands now, and a super view across to Yr Eifl and some of the other bits of the Lleyn Peninsula -
A deep cove that cuts into the coastline -
Out along the rocky fin on the left hand side of the cove, and an ancient winch - with a good backdrop of the Nantlle Ridge and a bit more of the Lleyn Peninsula -
I couldn`t work out what the purpose of the winch was - it was above a deep slot in the rocks, and the slot was too narrow to get a boat into, so it wasn`t for unloading boats.
I did wonder if perhaps there was some kind of a small quarry in the slot - I don`t know, here is the slot -
Round a wee bit more, and looking into a small beach there -
Once you have turned the corner and are heading along the south side of the headland the path isn`t so interesting, a lot of the time you are hidden from the sea walking along between big banks of gorse, so no view for quite a way.
However you do get some views eventually, this is looking in towards Aberffraw Beach, which is a super beach.
Maybe worth pointing out that if you want to continue on the coastal path onto the beach, you have to go all the way into Aberffraw, and then back out again, because the Afon Ffraw separates you from the beach.
A bit round to the right, and looking across to the next big headland that ends in the rather distinctive shape of Pen-y-parc - sadly the coastal path doesn`t go round this headland, it cuts away across country.
Now at this point something rather unexpected happened, I was walking along on a part of the path where I could look down on the sea, and suddenly a head appeared in the water, less than 10 metres away from the rocks.
I assumed it was a seal`s head, it came and went a few times, then disappeared.
However when I got home I found that the photograph showed that it wasn`t the head of a seal, it was in fact a fin - could it have been a dolphin - it wasn`t doing anything dramatic, just sort of cruising along.
So a bit of a mystery - maybe a basking shark, I have no idea -
Back round the headland now, and a super sunset -
Heading down now -
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