Sunday 31st May – Just another Slate Quarry

We rested up the dog this morning and headed out after lunch. Finally a cooler day with overcast skies which is what we’ve been waiting for. So we headed off to Cwmorthin Slate Quarry which is near Blaenau Ffestiniog. The nearby carpark was busy, but we squeezed my little car in to a space.

Like all the slate quarries, you enter it up a steep slope – so Holly had another free ride and I didn’t need to workout at the gym again. Unfortunately as we approached the ruined buildings we couldn’t avoid noticing a large group of Asians who were all having a picnic together. All their plastic bags, crisp packets, paper cups etc we left strewn all over the place. The wind had blown them into the stream and lake. The families didn’t seem to care one bit, but for now we concentrated on taking a few images.

We avoided photos of the Cwmorthin Barrack remains to start with as the Asians were all over it. But time was passing so we moved into position and noticed yet more rubbish blowing in the wind. Vanessa had already started to pick it up to minimise the chance of sheep, fish etc coming into contact with it and potentially suffocating.

Well by this time Vanessa had had enough and directly approached the Asian clan and the gobby mare fired both barrels at them which resulted in them starting to pick up their own rubbish. Fortunately they had also vacated the barracks, so we took a few more photos.

Then we headed into the nearby town for a little food shopping before heading back to the campsite.

Tomorrow we are likely to have some rain, so not sure if there will be an update tomorrow, but that will be in the lap of the gods.