Ball watching on th Afon Ystrad at Brookhouse.
More ball watching on th Afon Ystrad at Brookhouse.
The ball escapes at the "bush" takes over and we wait for the upton contingent to arrive!
Cows crossing the Afon Yrstad - first for me.
Cows crossing the Afon Yrstad, but there is still some that need encouraging to go the right way.
The view from my "happy bush"
"I'm not sure either."
The Jesse window at St. Dynog's Church, Llanrhaedre.
Ann Parry's graves stone, a special holy women that God spoke to and kept his promiss to her.
No they just don't know where they are going!
Final views of the Clwydian Hills.
The trapped bush has escaped!
Walk Stats:
Distance: 7.8 miles. Climb: 617’. (7.5 m.p.h. 685’)
Time: 4 hours 54 minutes. On the move walking average: 2.0 m.p.h. (2.1 m.p.h,)
Overall walk average: 1.7 m.p.h. (1.6 m.p.h.)
Temperature: At 17.8 Celsius at the start and didn’t change much throughout the walk, reaching 18.3 Celsius mid-afternoon.
Beaufort Wind force: 0 – 3. Mainly calm /light air, but briefly reached a 10.2 m.p.h. gentle breeze, but never feeling cold.
Group: Martyn. Sue and Michel, Ed, Nigel, Fran and Mike.
A later than usual start as the Met forecast indicated that there would be heavy rain until about 11-00. It was about 11-15 by the time we set off from our parking spot at Brookhouse as part of the group had difficulty finding the start point!
This is a walk we have done many times, but the paths have often been overgrown with vegetation in places, today was no exception.
The first surprise today was seeing cows being driven across the Afon Ystrad.
The first challenge of the day was on the path next to the Afon Clwyd where ever stile was broken and a challenge to the over seventies to climb over!
The second challenge was crossing the maize field as we headed towards Llanrhaedre, but eventually we all managed to escape and were happy to find the road and the path to our lunch spot at St.Dyfnog’s Church at Llanrhaedre.
After lunch everyone went into St. Dyfnog’s Church to see the Jesse window before visiting Ann Parry’s Grave and St. Dyfnog’s Well.
Route finding after leaving St. Dyfnog’s Well is always a challenge as the route description has changed, today was no exception, but we eventually got back on track.
The original description describes going through a golf course, but now it goes through a holiday lodge park with good path markers.
At one point we went past Mike’s cousin’s cottage, and luckily she was in the garden as e went past.
On this occasion, no one wanted to go on the Denbigh Castle extension, and preferred to head back to the cars and head to a suitable hostelry for refreshments.
Birds seen or heard today included: Common buzzard. Great cormorant, Mallard, Woodpigeon, Common blackbird, Jackdaw, Rook, Barn swallow and Mike’s Kingfisher.
It was a good decision to start an hour later and after a brief rain shower requiring the use of an umbrella; it was largely bright and sunny.
Overall an enjoyable walk worth celebrating at the Dinorben Arms at Bodfari, even if he price of a pint is on the rather pricy side!
Arriving at home, it was even warm enough to be able to clean my boots outside before enjoying the Bayern Munich v Man U match on TV!
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