As you may be aware Elaine and I (A and E tours) are walking the Pembrokeshire Coastal Path June 6th - 21st this year. In addition to this fund raising effort we have also organised a walk for everyone else on the Sunday 22nd June called the Port to Port which starts in Porth Penrhyn and finishes on the Conwy Quay. We recently walked from Porth Penrhyn to Llanfair (I'll post photos later). Yesterday we walked Llanfair to Conwy along the coast path and the cycle path, it's approx 8 and a half miles. We started on Llanfair beach the weather was lovely.
To be honest it's not very picturesque until you reach Penmaenmawr as the path takes you along the express way. The actual Coast Path gets to Llanfair and then it's up and onto the mountain but we think that having walked nearly 12 miles from Bangor on the day it would be a bit tight to expect people to go this way which is why we decided the rest could be done on the cycle path.
Armed with plenty of coffee and chilli chicken rolls oh and some ham for my darling little Jj we set off along the prom. I'm quite surprised at Jj she loves walking and doesn't seem to tire until she gets home then she's knackered hehe. She's as bad as Sox with her ball though, she looks at you like that Puss in Boots from Shrek so you'll throw it.
We walked over the bridges on the express way and down under the road bridge in Penmaenan onto the beach. There was a young girl there desperately trying to control 3 Alsatians, what looked like a Husky and a Rottweiler we could hear her shouting "Lunar, calm down Lunar" to one of the Alsatians hehe I just looked at Elaine and said I hope that's not short for Lunatic!
We sat at the end of Pen beach and ate our sarnies and fed and watered Jj. It was very busy down there and I'm not surprised the weather was cracking. We walked along the path that joins the road and made a detour down to what we have always as kids called Dead Mans Beach as Elaine has never been there. It's always quiet here and I wanted to show her some rocks I'd noticed.......they're interesting I promise
you can see from the photos the rocks are large and one has a cross carved intio it and another has been tooled. You can see my pen in the corner to give you a perspective of the size. I like to think these rocks and stones are what's left of Heligs Castle.
We went back up onto the road and continued on and into Conwy cutting down the cycle path and along to the Mulberry, where we had a well deserved pint.