Conwy Harbour.
Looking across the harbour towards Conwy Castle.
Setting off along the mystery path.
northward from the "mystery path".
Stretch out along a better section of the "mystery path".
The waterfall descending into the Fairy Glen.
A Dunnock sing from the top of a gorse bush.
The view from my lunch spot next bto Llyn y Wrach.
The view from Eds lunch spot next bto Llyn y Wrach.
Conwy Castle from the path as it bexits Coed Benarth.
Walk Stats: Distance: 10.3 miles. Climb: 1713’.
Time: 6 hours 2 minutes. On the move walking average: 2.0 m.p.h. Overall walk average: 1.7 m.p.h.
Temperature: At the start – 10. 5 Celsius. At Lunch – 14.4 Celsius. Max mid-afternoon 17.2 Celsius.
Beaufort Wind force: 0 – 3. Mainly no noticeable wind at all, occasionally gusting to a Gentle Breeze ( 8.2 m.p.h.)
Group: Martyn and Ed.
A slightly later than usual start, as the weather forecast indicated it would get better later on.
In fact the weather was much better than originally forecast as we had far more warm sunshine and less total cloud cover than predicted.
On this occasion, we took the bridle way on the southern side of Conwy Mountain, arriving at the Sychnant Pass where a large number of young people accompanied by a guitarist started chanting – was it a form of meditation, who knows?
At the Sychnant Path we saw a group take a path heading westward before the gate leading into the Pennant Estate. We had often wondered where this went, so we decided to explore a little, hoping it would eventually lead us to the North Wales Path before we needed to leave it in the direction of Llyn Y Wrach.
Initially the path was a wide grass track, but later on became quite narrow where care was needed. I will never understand why anyone would dare to ride a mountain bike on this path, but tyre marks showed that they did!
This pat gave us good views towards the coast, and at one point we could see the waterfall descending into the Fairy Glen.
The path did eventually meet the North Wales Path, much closer to the Llyn y Wrach path than we expected.
Llyn y Wrach today lived up to its name as it did contain water.
We both found suitable stones on which to sit for lunch, but a opposite ends of the lake.
We both decided to change into shorts at lunch, so that our legs good benefit from the Summer-like weather we were experiencing.
After lunch we headed across fields to reach Hafodty where we picked up its access track until we reached a footpath that skirted round the next farm.
The route through the Iolyn Park Holiday site was well directed, including a new underpass.
We eventually reached open land and followed field paths as far as Bryn-seiri Road. In doing so, we had to cross a field with about ten calves with their mothers standing guard.
Keeping our distance we managed to get through the field without distressing the calves or their mothers. Looking back towards them, we had a superb view of the high Snowdonia Mountains to the south west.
Leaving the Bryn-seiri Road, we had to go through a very muddy field, but worse was yet to come.
The path on the western side of Coed Benarth was even muddier. This woodland path looks as though it will give a good display of Bluebells in May.
There was a good display of flowers along the grass verges and woodland paths. These included: Dog violet, Lesser celandine, Primrose, Common daisy, Lesser periwinkle, Greater periwinkle, Wood anemone, Green alkanet, Dandelion, Greater stitchwort and Lords and ladies. Lots of Daffodils were still showing, but can they be regarded as wild flowers?
Birds seen or heard today included: Common blackbird, Herring gull, Oystercatcher, Jackdaw, Carrion crow, Raven, Rook, Great cormorant, Wood nuthatch, Woodpigeon, Bullfinch, Chiffchaff, Dunnock and Common buzzard.
Overall an enjoyable walk, even if our boots ended up being the muddiest we have experience for some time.
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