Kinmel Bay to Little Orme
Its Day 2 Monday 7 April 25 and having been deposited at Yesterday’s endpoint , half way along a massive holiday park I am heading to Llanddulas passing by Pensarn & Abergele. Its warm and sunny and very very straight.
As I approach ‘Pensarn’ I see a shelter with photographs of people working in the local area. Quite an intersting way of promoting the county’s workforce.
I see what appears to be a ‘castle’ on the sloping woodland ahead, however a conversation was had and it seems its an old hunting lodge. Apparently ‘Ant & Dec’ hosted a ‘show’ there during ‘COVID’
Passing by ‘Pensarn’ I am nearing Llanddulas and stop for a breather beside the stream running to the shore. Bro, Sis In Law and Dog are enjoying the sunshine.
Raring to go I don’t stop long and am soon walking a gravelly shore with ‘the ‘Orme’ on the horizon. The curve of ‘Penrhyn Bay’, ‘Rhos On Sea’ and the ‘Orme’ are beckoning.
Off the gravel now and on Tarmac pathway with unusually shaped blocks for sea defence and a pier ahead.
Llanddulas behind me I have already completed the ‘planned’ 2nd day’s walking, yet I want to get to ‘Little Orme’ , visibly a long way off. I don’t know whether or not I’ll walk that far it looks a fair distance !
In the back of my mind there is the knowledge that ‘Llandudno’ and ‘The Orme’ were walked last October as well as Llandudno to Conwy with Forever Friend. (Walks 65 & 66 ) If I were to reach ‘Little Orme’ today I could ‘springboard’ this week’s plan quite a way forward. Starting Day 3 at Conwy Castle !
For now; back to the pier which serves as a loading point for ‘gravel’ mined on the mountainside to my left. The minings are working as a ‘Gravel’ cloud, is overhanging the hillside.
Maybe an hour or so later I reach Penrhyn Bay, stop for lunch and now ‘Little Orme’ is not so distant as I head toward ‘Rhos on Sea’
It was so small I nearly missed it as I exited Rhos On Sea’. The tiny church of St Trillo. It was founded in the early 16th Century (15??) by Cistercian Monks and St Trillo came from ‘Brittany’ (Thanks ‘Google’)
Leaving St Trillo’s I head round one more small bay and walk to ‘Angel Bay’
The feet hurt at 12+ miles.
I have sprung my walking a whole day forward.
Tomorrow will be Conwy as the start. Well pleased.
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