North Wales

A Trip South along the West Coast

If you watched the series “Under Salt Marsh” it was filmed in North Wales. The scene was set in a remote town called Morfa Halen which apparently was only accessible via a tidal access road. Well the actual town it was filmed in was Fairbourne which was our first stop. We arrived around high tide and Google took us on a 25 minute detour around the Mawddach estuary and into the town from the south. In the series this access was impassable as it would have been through a salt marsh. We also discovered that there wasn’t a tidal access road – just a small ferry boat. Well that’s TV for you.

First priority was lunch before we wandered along the sea wall, which also highlighted our first problem we had to manage in this holiday. Our aging dog Holly who is nearly 15 years old now and to be completely honest we didn’t think she would survive this long. Those of you that remember my blog from Cornwall last year might recall I tried to carry Holly in a Dog Rucksack – she wasn’t happy with that and jumped out. Plan B – I purchased a dog sling…

Surprisingly she liked it and I found it easier to carry her across my front which was nicely balanced with my camera bag on my back. The town itself wasn’t really worth visiting, but it is set is a nice location along the Mawddach Estuary.

We headed back north and planned a small detour to a derelict slate mine.

The first image obviously taken with my drone.

One last stop was to take a few snaps of the Caernarfon Castle from across the river.

So a relatively relaxed day which wasn’t expected as I woke up with a streaming cold and sore throat. But the fresh air has done me some good and tomorrow the weather is set to improve a lot, so we will probably tour around the Anglesey coastline to look for potential sunset locations.