Today's 10km walk from Trefriw featured, at last, a decent quota of sunshine. After a coffee break at the café opposite the Fairy Falls pub, we set off past the falls and over a high footbridge with a bird's eye view of them.
Beyond this we climbed to paths through forestry, with views across to Llanrwst and back to Trefriw, before arriving at a car park from where there are some enticing looking mountain bike routes. Many blackbirds and robins were rummaging for goodies in the leaf litter.
En route we had diverted to admire the Grey Mare's Tail waterfall, one of seven so named cascades in the UK, the rest being in Scotland. We've paid good money to view less attractive falls than these - the diversion was most worthwhile.
Then it was down to the river for a good stroll in the sunshine, all the way back to Trefriw, much of it on an embankment that is intended to contain the river when it's in spate. Other walkers were about today, including one local man with whom we had a long chat.
A stone bench provided the best lunch spot of this trip, with nuthatches and tits nearby, and woodpeckers chipping away in the distance.
On return to base in Porthmadog, we had time to enjoy a leisurely afternoon, admiring some of the wildlife in the estuary, which today includes little egrets, oyster catchers, wigeon, redshank, a variety of ducks, and a number of small unidentified specimens.
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