Just a few photos of sea anemones and shells....I can spend hurs on a beach as the tide drops ...and the paddle was very enjoyable too!
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| Hibernating Garden Snails - apparently the collective noun for a group of snails is an escargatoire, or less interestingl,y a walk, a trail or a garden. |
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| Periwinkles. |
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| Turnstone. |
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| Beadlet Anemones. |
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| Periwinkles and colours. |
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| Snakelocks Anemones - and below. |
After the gales of the morning, a walk out to blow away the cobwebs - and it gradually turned into a beautiful day...a nice light and big waves.
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| Spot the two dogs... |
A quick walk out along the beach and some lovely volcanic rocks. I forgot the camera so phone photos will have to suffice.
A very pleasant walk along the coast from Aberdaron - first inland along the Wales coast footpath which then headed across farmland and then back onto the coast proper. Lots of Choughs, splendid views, warm sunshine and field mushrooms - for tea! St Hywyn's Church is worth a visit too, with its pilgrim connections to Bardsey Island. Click here for more about the church and pilgrimage to Bardsea, where 20,000 saints are supposedly buried and the Britain's first monastery was founded 1500 years ago.
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| Walking inland - plenty of berries and small birds hiding in the scrub. |
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| Sloes and Hawthorn. |
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| Looking east. |
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| Aberdaron beach. |
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| Licheny walls. |
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| Lichen detail. |
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| Warm sunshine... |
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| Choughs. |
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| Late afternoon. |
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| Aberdaron Church. |
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| With this being such a spectacular setting I thought it might have appeared in a film or two - appearently not - just Songs of Praise - several times. |
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| Sixth century gravestones, commemorating the priests Senacus and Veracius. |
A spectacular walk!
Yr Eifl National Nature Reserve was designated as such in 2019, because of the range of altitude for this area of oceanic heath (from 10 to 564m) and its proximity to the sea, but it is the Iron Age fort that steals the show!
Starting at the carpark up on the fell behind Llithfaen we walked along the old quarry track (Wales coast Path) before ascending onto Garn Ganol - the highest point on the Lleyn -a scramble with both Stag's-horn Club Moss and Alpine Club Moss and good views, albeit capped by low cloud. From the summit we descended through the cloud towards the Iron Age fort on Tre'r Ceiri. As the mist cleared, it dramatically revealed the size and extent of this important site: one of the largest and best preserved Iron age forts in Britain (there has been substantial restoration though). The fort, built in the late Iron Age, so 880 BC- 45 AD, was still inhabited by the Celtic Britons during the Roman occupation and consisted of 150 huts which were only abandoned as the climate cooled and growing crops became harder.
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| Along the Wales Coastal footpath - with the granite quarry in the background. |
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| The granite was used for pavements, but also curling stones. |
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| Garn Canol. |
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| Stag's-horn Club Moss. |
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| Garn Ganol. |
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| Views... |
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| Looking down onto Tre'r Ceiri.... |
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| All was revealed... |
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| Making our way down and across... |
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| Defensive walls. |
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| One of the entrance gates. |
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| Huts. |
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| The outer wall. |
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| The summit cairn. |
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| Overlooking more huts. |
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| Looking west ... |
