At the car, putting our boots on, a man came over for a chat. He was doing the coast path and had done our planned route yesterday, said it was very nice, but he hadn’t seen any Choughs. He hadn’t seen any for years, he said. He went off to catch his bus to Llanengan, then walk the 10 miles back, then drive 4 hours back to Swansea tonight.
We walked along the coast path around the southern end of the Llyn peninsula.
We disturbed a nice big silvery-grey and black Adder basking in the sun in the path. It headed for cover in the bracken before we could get a photo. Further on there were some Common Lizards.
Three Red Kites were flying about, being bothered by a crow.
Loads of flowers lined the path. Bluebells, Primroses, Red Campions, Vetch, some Early Purple Orchids.
At the southern end of the peninsular at the headland called Pen y Cil we heard the sound of Choughs. A large flock was doing their thing, showing off by flying acrobatically about all over the place and also feeding in the fields. We sat and watched them for a while and they whizzed and cavorted past our heads swooping down from the hill behind.
We walked a bit further round the headland and saw Bardsey Island (destination for tomorrow).
High up on the cliff was a pond full of frogspawn.
We walked back inland and had lunch at a campsite cafe.
After lunch, footpaths on the map didn’t seem to exist in the real world so we walked along a lane for a mile or two and then followed a footpath alongside a stream back to Aberdaron.
About 8.5 miles.
Nice dinner: mussels, steak, lasagne, claret. Much quieter in Aberdaron tonight.