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KateCelyn, 7 months ago to cymru

More along the Mawddach Trail for my Daily #Wales.

In the 18th & 19th centuries it was more, um, industrial - there were small shipbuilding yards, often by the rivers running into the estuary. This is one site; the wall on the left is part of a quayside. In total 318 vessels were built on the Mawddach. And up on the far side was the Clogau gold mine. Different times. And a lot less silt.

We stopped to paddle.

KateCelyn, 7 months ago to cymru

Daily #Wales is still strolling along the Mawddach trail (did it twice in two months, once in six hours with a geologist, off along side trails, plant and rock spotting - then in under two with an overactive collie and zero diversions). The pics are from the first trip!

This must have been an amazing train journey - once upon a time.

KateCelyn, 7 months ago to cymru

Daily #Wales, a #SilentSunday, and a continuation along the Mawddach Trail - looking inland from the path. A fascinating walk with a geologist…

KateCelyn, 7 months ago to cymru

More along the Mawddach Trail for today’s Daily #Wales - looking seawards, with Barmouth’s wooden railway viaduct in the distance, seen between the branches.

KateCelyn, 7 months ago to cymru

Daily #Wales along the Mawddach trail - taking plenty of time to admire the wildflowers. These are sea pinks, and so deserve a #bloomscrolling

And today, hopefully, my new phone arrives after my old one died yesterday (am still in mourning for my old friend, mind).

KateCelyn, 7 months ago to cymru

Continuing my summer walk along the Mawddach Trail for my Daily #Wales, this time looking inland and across the estuary. I can’t recommend this walk strongly enough!

KateCelyn, 7 months ago to cymru

The next few Daily #Wales pics will take a stroll along the Mawddach Trail, at low tide and the height of summer. The flat Trail - it’s an old railway route - leads walkers (and cyclists and absolutely everyone) along the estuary from the sea to Dolgellau. We started at the coast and walked inland - here, looking coastwards early on.

KateCelyn, 7 months ago to cymru

Daily #Wales and a #SilentSunday… Mist on the estuary

KateCelyn, 7 months ago to cymru

This Daily #Wales was taken a couple of years ago. It’ll be worse right now; I’m betting on no footpath but not inclined to investigate - because it’s a) still dark outside & b) there’s a hole in my wellies.

KateCelyn, 7 months ago to cymru

Daily #Wales and #FensterFreitag today comes from Penrhyn Castle near Bangor - the kitchens.

Penrhyn was built on the backs of slaves on sugar plantations and, closer to home, workers in the family’s slate quarries. This terrible history is made perfectly clear now - thankfully.

KateCelyn, 7 months ago to cymru

Daily #Wales and a #ThrowbackThursday today. It’s from the winter of 2010-11, when even we had snow (it’s not that common here, by the coast - a few miles inland is a different story).

KateCelyn, 7 months ago to cymru

I need a calming Daily #Wales but somehow I don’t think it will be enough. So here’s a storm blurring the sun instead.

(Off to donate to MSF / UNICEF and a plague on both your houses, fecking bastards)

KateCelyn, 7 months ago to cymru

Daily #Wales time, before looking at the news so no need for calm. Here’s Barmouth / Abermaw (or Y Bermo, if you like) after a storm a few years back. I was standing on the top of a dune which had previously been a footpath… oddly beautiful, tho.

KateCelyn, 7 months ago to cymru

Daily #Wales fir the start of the week, up in the mountains again, with hawthorns. Damp hawthorns.

KateCelyn, 7 months ago to cymru

It’s #SilentSunday time, so my Daily #Wales comes from my favourite local beach (well, my favourite local estuary which leads onto …). Llandanwg, near Harlech. An early morning in summer, tide on the turn.

KateCelyn, 7 months ago to cymru

Daily #Wales, #FensterFreitag, #WindowFriday or whatever - calming? Not so sure; it’s the view through an arrow slit in the castle at Caernarfon.

KateCelyn, 7 months ago to cymru

Daily #Wales time. In search of more calming effects, here’s are the woods behind me looking all snowy. From a few years back, mind (we don’t get a lot here; too close to the coast).

KateCelyn, 8 months ago to cymru

Sounds wild out there, so maybe my ‘beach walk before meeting’ plan won’t happen. Here’s a Daily #Wales from the possible beach anyway.

Next, strong coffee and the news…

KateCelyn, 8 months ago to cymru

Going to try and squeeze in a walk through the woods today. These woods, for my Daily #Wales. Not sure whether I want to calm down or get more angry, but I am sure that the latter will achieve sweet FA…

KateCelyn, 8 months ago to cymru

I’m definitely going to need coffee before news today, and I know I’ll need a calming Daily #Wales, so here is one. Yr Wyddfa / Snowdon and friends from Harlech.

KateCelyn, 8 months ago to cymru

#SilentSunday and today’s Daily #Wales comes from the Glaslyn, near Beddgelert. Not that you’d know it in the mist.

KateCelyn, 8 months ago to random

A lovely piece on a brilliant author, often ignored or patronised by the literary establishment (and better than many):

Pratchett power: from lost stories to new adaptations, how the late Discworld author lives on https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/oct/07/terry-pratchett-discworld-author-the-colour-of-magic?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

KateCelyn, 8 months ago to cymru

Daily #Wales time, and a random scroll gives me …

Tree ferns in the gardens at Plas Cadnant, Menai Bridge. A fabulous #garden, well worth a visit (good tea room, too).