Boating with Chuckywinkle + Co.

After planning a wet weekend late last year for four , the gods were kind to us and left us with some decent levels in Wales.

So we christened the new paddle wagon (Xena) and headed across on Friday night, a quick roadside stop on the A57 to remove unwanted car parts and we were there, Bils and Lou were close behind. We had booked a cottage in Betsw-y-coed, very convenient for a late trip to the pub!

Day one:

A lazy start to let the overworked NHS employee (Lou) have her rest, we finally got on the road at 11-ish. Over the hill from Betws-y-coed we found the Mawddach at a decent level. We foolishly carried up 100 metres to paddle the 'public toilet falls', and were unsuprisingly repremanded by the house owner on the bankside.

Bils about to 'encounter' the local.

Something along the lines of 'we don't want your city types here - don't come back - your not welcome in these parts' but with some nice antiquated views added in.
(To be fair, he put his point across in a civil manner and all that - just some odd views!)

We smiled and nodded in the right places and then carried on with our fun day out.

Bils on the Public Toilet Falls

After the Mawddach we dashed over to the Aberglaslyn Gorge for a nice blast down it;

Bils actually nailing a line on the Aberglaslyn Gorge.

Bils fluffing it on the Breaker

Me having just cleaned the Breaker (cough).

Me on a dodgy line: Bils said "down the next pour-over, then head left, you want to be as close to the pointy up rock as you can" - idiot, luckily for him I pulled it back.

And off they head into the gloom.

Following that we headed back to Bewtsy, and bagged a last minute run down the Llugwy (Pont-y falls - Forestry Falls). Managed to get off just before it went dark before heading back to a very warm cottage for a very large dinner!! Made another trip up to the pub, this time with a snow ball fight on the way (well actually it wasnt snow but large hail stones so a hail ball would probably be a more accurate description!).

And that was that: Day 2 coming up.