The Alyn Waters Country Park walk in photos.
Time: 3 hours 17 minutes. On the move walking average: 2.5 m.p.h.
Overall walking average: 1.8 m.p.h.
Temperature: 6.8 at the start. 11.8 Celsius for most of the walk.
Beaufort Wind Force: 1-2. At most a 4.7 m.p.h. Light breeze.
Group: Martyn and Mike.
Mike found this walk around the Alyn Waters Country Park, and thought that it was worth exploring to see if was suitable for on of our short walks.
As Mike was involved in a concert with Clwyd Clippers in the evening, today was ideal for us to visit the Alyn Waters Country Park.
Alyn Waters Country Park is in two parts, so exploring both sections would, we hoped, enable us to devise a figure of eight walk of a suitable length.
This was a really good day for walking, pleasantly warm in the sunshine, but we did experience a coolish breeze at lunchtime.
This was quite a varied walk, with one section near a farm that had potential for being muddy, if the walk was done after a period of rain.
Lunch was taken after 3.5 miles, when we arrived at the car park / playground at the eastern end of the park. Here, there were several picnic benches to choose from. We chose one that gave good views of the park where we would walk after lunch.
The eastern section of the park, was very popular with dog walkers, but most were on leads and caused no problems.
Birds seen or heard today included: Black billed magpie, Mallard, European robin, Jackdaw, Woodpigeon, Long tailed tit, Grey wagtail, Carrion crow, Common buzzard and Common blackbird.
Overall, a very enjoyable walk, and one that we both agreed would be suitable for one of short walks in 2027.
We headed back to the Pant-y-Ochain for liquid refreshments, Titanic Plum Porter for me and Guinness Zero and Chilli Crisps for Mike.
