Wales Coast Path 2024

The shape of the coast here means it was fairly straightforward to do a circular walk where nearly all of it was along the Wales Coast Path. So we started at Aberdaron and walked along quiet country roads past Gwythrian to Porthoer. We stopped just above the beach at a convenient picnic table for our coffee break. We had again chosen a fine weather day, blue skies everywhere, but breezy. It helped that this was blowing us towards the land when we were walking along steep cliffsides, at least while we remained on the north coast. It became a little more sheltered as we turned. Picnic lunch was at Porth Llanllawen which energised us for the ascent of Mynydd Mawr,  another refreshment break. A very clear view there of Ynys Enlli / Bardsey Island. At this point, Anglesey remained just in view and we could look inland towards peaks of Eryri. The hills continued southwards giving us Meirionydd, and then we could see a far-off coast stretch round the horizon, which must have been Ceredigi...

Today's walk had reference to a recent newspaper article extolling the path and its cafes. Logistics dictated this was to be another two-car walk. After the essential car transfer, we had a coffee at Cwt Tatws before setting off on foot. The first leg had until recently been closed, with a diversion in place, because of severe mud. It has been open for a few days now (we had checked) and it was passable enough after a week of dry weather - but we could see how this part of the path could become fairly awful after a bit of rain. At Traeth Penllech, our book had told us that the path diverted along roads inland because of a landslip below the cliff. When we got there, it became clear that the path has been reinstated along the clifftop (we could see a bit of the slipped portion) so we didn't need to divert there. We stopped at the Moel-y-Berth Coastal Cafe , where we were warned of the next diversion that was  in place. Again, having checked path status before we set off, we kn...