Today’s walk is a slightly easier version of one that we tackled last year. Then chatting to young Mr Jones on Abergwynant Farm site we talked about walking up the distant Cadair Idris, he told me how to get their on foot from the farm. It was a stunning walk and one that will never be forgotten, not least for the precipitous drops, the type that has a Freddy on his hands and knees.
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Back on the Pony Track
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Sand On The Tracks
The weather is unseasonably cool today, it’s overcast and to borrow a phrase from Christopher Robin ‘Tut-tut it looks like rain”. After my early morning stroll with the boys it is time to settle down to do some work. So it is early afternoon when we hop in the car and drive to the car park at Morfa Mawddach Station to then walk to Barmouth.
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Fred’s First Otter
Staying on Abergwynant Farm is a real treat, the early morning walk alongside the Abergwynant down to the Afon Mawddach is always interesting. This morning it is especially so because as I walk on the banks of the river I see my first ever wild, Otter. Unfortunately it was far too quick for me to take a picture, but the memory will live with me.
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Back to Abergwynant
When we abruptly ended our grand tour last year, due to a minor health scare which at the time was, quite scarily, suspected Lyme’s disease, we had reached a cracking site just outside Dolgellau. So having decided to take to the road once again it seemed logical to return to Abergwynant Farm to commence this mini tour.
The drive from Much Wenlock to Dolgellau through the Cambrian Mountains is outstanding. For too many years I have avoided visiting Wales, following a most inhospitable experience over 30 years ago. But last year the locals were very welcoming everywhere we visited and the scenery was superb.
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