Had an another amazing local walk, from the front door, past places we've never been, with views we'd never seem and even met some neighbours we'd never seen or spoken too.
The slate quarries behind the house are full or history. For ever tonne of slate that was extracted, there were another ninth tonnes of waste left behind! A staggering statistic, but it does at least go some way to explaining why there is so much slate lying around here.
After weaving through some lesser travelled footpaths, we came across a landowner, clearing a ditch. He was very friendly and showed us the best way to continue after a nice chat about the area. Apparently there is a church and village under the slate heaps here! The got buried by the advancing slate tips. We later came across a few ruins.
There was a geology lesson in the old slate walls too - the right-hand side had subsided, causing a ripple in the strata.
We also saw some insectivorous plants - Sundew: the venus suntraps of North Wales.
And higher up, the wild strawberries are flowering!
The slate around here is famous for its green dots, but we found a really good 'wave' in one piece.
The journey home was on an exciting knife-edge ridge of piled up slates! An uncharted alpine ridge of North Wales!
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