Exploring :: Making the most of the Sunshine

Hi there everyone 😀

We have been at our home away from home in North Wales for the last week and we have been blessed with a run of a few days of fabulous weather. 

Saturday ended up being one of those days that was near perfect. Glorious sunshine, clear blue skies, temperatures the warmest so far this year … and we found a couple of absolutely beautiful new spots to add to our list of favourites.

We were heading for Porth Penllech, but decided to call at Towyn beach on the way, with a quick stop for a cuppa at Cwt Tatws … which I understand translates as potato hut. 

We had actually been to have a look at Towyn beach before … 

… but it certainly looked better this time … from a bench with the most fabulous view …

… in either direction …

In the above photo … if you look closely … you can see a small building in the distance … at the tip of the most distant promontory. We really wanted to try and find out what it was. 

I had a short wander whilst Martin sat in the sunshine to take in the view from a little further along and it was just the most beautiful beach …

From here we meandered along the narrow lanes along the coast southward …

Before we reached the parking spot for Penllech beach we came to a right turn which didn’t really look like a road … more like a potholey footpath come bridleway. We decided to chance it and yes it was pretty lumpy and bumpy … but it was definitely a right of way for cars and we soon came upon a bit of a parking area where people were parked up sitting in the sunshine picnicking and some were even getting ready for some scuba diving.

It was another absolutely beautiful spot with more fabulous views along the coast …

… and down into the pretty little cove of Porth Ysgaden … with the remains of the old customs officer’s house up on the hill and the dive boat waiting for the scuba divers down below …

We sat a while on some very conveniently placed benches … watching boat owners getting stuck in the sand whilst trying to tow their boats up the beach … before having a bit of a short wander along the rocks to the left. There were so many coastal flowers … and we even saw a tiny lizard scuttling across the path …

We hadn’t particularly intended on walking down to the beach but it wasn’t far and we did head down to watch the scuba divers head off …

… and we couldn’t resist picking up plenty of bits of seaglass in all kinds of colours …

We made our way back up off the beach and decided to head for the old customs officer’s house on the hill and a couple sat in the sun told us that if we walked a short way over the cliff we would find some old fishing huts so we decided to investigate further. 

On the gate to the headland was a QR code which when scanned told us lots about the history of the spot, which was really interesting.

We could see a hut at the end of the cliffs and headed straight for it …

We sat for a fair while round the back of the hut on the grass just taking it all in …

We could see right across back to Towyn, where we’d sat earlier on …

And down below was Porth Y Cychod with clear blue seas and lots of old fishing huts and paraphernalia …

It was the perfect spot for sitting in the sunshine and we lingered a fair while on our grassy perch before tearing ourselves away …

… and making our way back to the remaining gable end of the old customs officer’s house …

As time had run away with us we had to abandon our search for Penllech beach for another day. It was time to head for home 😀

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