Looking back towards Conwy harbour.
The only shaded part of the North Wales Path that we were to get!
A vociferous Raven on the North eastern edge of Conwy Mountain.
Conwy from the North eastern side of Conwy Mountain.
Castell Caer Seion on Conwy Mountain.
Looking acros the Sychnant Pass towards Maen Esgob and Craigfedwen.
Badger sheep?, south of Maen Esgob.
Looking across Penmaenmawr towards Puffin Island and Anglesey.
On this occasion we decided not to stop for lunch next to Llyn y Wrach.
Looking towards the Conwy Valley from our lunch spot East of Llyn y Wrach.
Emerging from the enclosed path leading to Bryn-mawr and onto Mount Pleasant.
Alpacas and horses, but thankfully they weren't interested in us.
Crow's Nest Hall.
An unusual building in field North of an old golf clubhouse.
A different view of Conwy Mountain.
Conwy Mountain from the South.
Walk stats: Distance: 8.0 mmiles. Climb: 1447'
Time: 4 hours 37 minutes. On the move walking average: 2.2 m.p.h. Overall walk average; 1.8 m.p.h.
Group: Martyn and Roger.
The forecast was for it to be mainly cloudy, some sunshine and temperatures around 20 Celsius, but with a cooling North westerly breeze. Thankfully we did get a cooling breeze as we didn't see any clouds of any note.
The trip around the harbour was pleasant as ever, but not very productive for birds, just a few Oystercatchers, a Mute swan and a couple of fishing Great cormorants.
It got a little better as we started to cross Conwy Mountain, first two Ravens came close, the a Common kestrel displayed superb flying skills as it avoided the interests of a mobbing bird, and ficinally a calling Red billed chough.
The views in all directions were superb as we crossed the Conwy Mountain ridge towards the Sychnant Pass.
After crossing the Sychnant Pass road, it was our intention to have lunch at Llyn y Wrach, but as it was dry, we decided to go a little further, and ended up having lunch on the North east side of Cefn Llechen.
At lunch we had already walked 4.7 miles. so we decided to shorten the original planned walk by taking the path around Craigfedwen and the taking paths roughly in a North eastward to Mount Pleasant.
This route took us past some very large and interesting black and white houses, a building that looked like a cricket pavilion, but turned out to be "The Old Golf Clubhouse".
The final decent to the car park was taken on a path that went through "the Conwy Community Orchard".
The return route was along paths new to us. It is always good to explore paths that in the future will give us more options on our walks.
Birds seen or heard today included: Oystercatcher, Great cormorant, Herring gull, Black-headed gull, House sparrow, Common chaffinch, Red-billed chough, Raven, Carrion crow, Barn swallow, House martin, Stonechat, Woodpigeon and Meadow pipit.
We arrived back at the car to find the car park full and cars driving around hoping to find a space.
Overall a very enjoyable walk, and once more with feet thankful to feel the fresh air when we took off our boots!
After walk drinks were enjoyed when we got home, a glass of Old Rosie;s Cider was my choice.
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