A couple of weeks ago, my wife had a hair appointment in the village of Llanbedr, so I decided to get a lift there and walk back home – via the inland, scenic route. See route map at the end of the gallery, but it was a distance of around 11.5 miles or 18.5km.
After an easy start along the road and quite wide tracks, I soon found myself wading through bracken up to my waist, trying to find my way. Although I was clearly on the correct line of the path according to my GPS, a 4 to 5 feet high drystone wall lay directly across my path. After searching left and right, there was nothing else to do but climb over it. (This is not recommend btw).
After that, the going, across open moor and farmland, got much easier. I dropped down to a small lake, called Llyn y Fedw. I wasn’t expecting to find anything in particular, but it was abuzz with dragonflies and damselflies. While trying to coax a pair of Common Blues out of the grass, in the hope of getting a decent photo, the male dragged his female partner onto my hand. Luckily this time, my camera was in my other hand. 👍😀 (See pic 15).
Quite a few butterflies were out and about too, with a large number of Meadow Browns fluttering in and out of the hedgerows along our single track road. (See pic 22).
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