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Cwrt to Aberdyfi

The forecast for the next few days is changing all the time and trying to find a sunny day for Notty to walk with us means tomorrow will be a ‘rest’ day as its going to be so Windy. Today the walk from Cwrt to Aberdovey has been moved forward.

Thanks to Google Maps we have identified a small parking area at Cwrt to start our day having delivered the ‘destination’ car to Aberdovey. This walk is on the North side of the Dovey. Having got our bearings we walk for a short distance along a lane and leave the road dropping down to a low gravel track.

The track gently climbs and dips as we reach for the top of our route. At a farm a quad-bike drops onto the track in front of us and disappears uphill, at a rate of knots ! We see what we believe is our course ahead of us. Its a muddy track rising quite steeply upwards to the highest point of today’s jaunt.

On the way up we notice a marker stone. Its apparently marks a spot where in Arthurian Legend his horse made a ‘hoof mark’ in the stone.

We are at the top and now facing a ‘heavy draft’ probably between 30 to 40 MPH but also a first glimpse of the Dovey river below and to our left.

It really is blowing hard for the remainder of today’s walk, however we’re well wrapped up and in harmony with its wildness. Continuing along a gently undulating track and heading seaward we meet the farmer coming back from his ‘sheep surveying’ and he halts by us. Now we know he is in the same senior age category as ourselves. We chat a few minutes and have a laugh with him. A pleasant experience.

As we head ever seaward through a deeply undulating landscape , past farms and steadily climbing, we meet a couple going in the opposite direction. Conversation ensues and they are doing much the same as we are this week. I can’t believe how consistently strong the wind is channelled up the valley to our right. Its worth braving for the stunning views

We sit and enjoy the view over the estuary and are pretty much all the way through today’s footwork. It just requires a gentle downhill stretch, a left turn and a few hundred yards more and we enter the upper reaches of Aberdyfi. Now descending stairways and paths between houses on the slope overlooking the estuary. A pretty sight it is.

We end our day in a crowded coffee shop and enjoy what it has to offer. Retrieving the other car from Cwrt we head back to our accommodation in Bryncrug.