8th June, 2022 - Davy Morgan's Dingle

So pressing on now, we felt we needed to keep the mileage going up especially as we have a few days walking coming up with my niece and her hubbie in a couple of weeks and fit we are not!

It was a lovely day so we thought a trip up our hills would be ideal, somewhere we know so well and where we can go as far as we feel like on the day!


Off we went up Slope Road, the means by which fitness can be achieved when it's walked often enough and has been a good measure of fitness levels over the last 20 years here!
The higher we walk, the better the view on days like this.


In the old quarry at the valley leading up to Great Rhos, known to us as Eerie Bottom, there we found the wheatears once more, another of our summer visitors. They've been here now over several years and always pop out to say hi as we pass!


The clouds looked a bit ominous as we approached Davy Morgan's Dingle....but the rain held off.
It is a slightly unique eco climate in Radnor Forest!


At the end of the dingle is the pond, its name I have never discovered but it does give magnificent views towards the Black Mountaind, the Beacons and up towards Plynlumon, the Rhinogs and Cadair Idris.


The cotton grass at the other side of the pond was waving in the breeze with the Beacons behind....

That was far enough for today so we headed back rather than continuing to the top of Great Rhos but even so the views remain stunning. Down the Dingle here to the Black Mountains and our neighbouring valleys.

Spring flowers of course just gorgeous! Buttercups and daisies....



So that wasn't very far today to add on. Even so 5 more miles and now really would like to press on and get those 500 miles under the belt. It's been a bit of a slog!!!!


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