Looking towards the Great Orme from Pensarn Beach at the start of the walk.
the path heading to the watchtower.
The watchtower on Tower Hill from the exit gate from Coed Abergele.
That's the way back to the car, but not just yet.
The watchtower from the minor road North of Moelfre.
It was a bit breezy on Moelfre Isaf.
Made it!
The view from our lunch spot sheltering in a small quarry North of Moelfr Isaf.
Not another "Scruffy", still with us a mile after joining us at Moelfre.
Lime kilns on the North west side of Pen-y-graig.
Walk stats: Distance: 9.3 miles. Climb: Wind assisted GPS reading 2971' ( In reality about 1350'.
time 4 hours 43 minutes. On the move waking average: 2.5 m.p.h. Overall walk average: 1.9 m.p.h.
Group: Martyn and Jim.
Arriving at Pensarn Beach, it nwa somewhat breezy, so much so that I had a job to open the car door to get out.
Undaunted by this we set off, knowing that we would be battling against the wind at times, but at least there was no rain in the forecast. It was on the cool side, and fleece and mitts were needed for comfort, but so were shades at times.
Route finding was straight forward, except for sections being a little overgrown around one or two stiles.
The path through Coed Abegele to the Watchtower on Tower Hill was well defined, and was OK as soon as I realised we had to take the left turn up the steps.
after visiting Watchtower, we retraced our steps the kissing gate and the path along the North side of the wood. this path was well defined in places, but only perseverance through the overgrown sections led us to the stile that we wanted.
Arriving at Moefre, we decided to head for the trig point on Moelfre Isaf, but nearing the top, it became so windy that we could hardly stand up.
We didn't linger for long and rapidly descended to the small quarry by the road, where we sheltered from the wind as we had our lunch.
After lunch, we were soon heading South across a series of fields, and in the second field, a very friendly Collie decide it wanted follow us. It seemed to know exactly were we were going, leading us to every stile and gate Some fields had sheep in, but thankfully this dog seemed happy about sheep and didn't attempt to worry them in any way. When would this dog turn back - would it turn back or would we have another "Scruffy" on our hands!
we were nearly back in housing on the outskirts of Abergele, when a rather stiff kissing gate prevented the dog from following us any further.
We arrived back at the car to find that the wind hadn't subsided in any way and the Dark Sky app suggested the wind was gusting to mover 30 m.p.h.
Overall a very enjoyable walk despite ending up with rather muddy boots thanks to following the paths on the West side of the Afon Gele.
Birds seen or heard today included: Herring gull, Common blackbird, Blue tit, Great tit, European robin, Common pheasant, Woodpigeon, Dunnock, Mistle thrush, Jackdaw, Carrion crow, Rook, House sparrow and Common chaffinch.
Afterwalk sdrinks were enjoyed at the Blue Bell Inn at halkyn, where Lees Bitter and Purple Moose's Colan Lan brews were sampled.
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