28 Feb 2026

[Will add photos to this post soon]

Myself and walking buddy Ian, set off in Abersoch and almost immediately couldn’t find the route. We walked down Lon Traeth to the slipway car park but couldn’t find the path as marked on the map. We couldn’t see any way markers but we found a path in the corner of the car park which gave us a view of the south beach with it’s row of beach huts. The path took us past some expensive looking new builds and wound it’s way to Lon Pen Cei next to the bay. The path looped back to the centre of the village near to where we started and then down across the Afon Soch to the harbour. I didn’t see a single way marker in Abersoch making me think they may have been deliberately removed.

Th coast path follows the main road north for a bit and then goes down a path onto Trwyn y Fach beach. There was a metal post looking like it could have once had a coast path direction indicator. It’s a nice walk from here past the Warren Holiday Park towards the rocky headland near Llanbedrog. From this point onward the way markers were back which was a big help. The path followed a lane then steeply up a path with steps and along the perimeter of the headland. We met a couple called Mark & Linda here with their dog Tilly. I told them about my fund raising for Mind and they told me about their son who had a severe form of amnesia after a siezure. (Thank you for your donation, much appreciated).

Above the beach at Llanbedrog, we passed a metalwork statue of a man. It was designed by the artist Berwyn Jones and made by locals, David and Hugh Jones. There was an original statue here repurposed from a ship’s figurehead. That eventually was vandalised and burned then replaced by a second metal man statue which succumbed to the weather and was in turn replaced by the third current statue. The path then descends to the modern Glyn y Weddw arts centre with a cafe extension to the old house looking like a gigantic sequined sea urchin! Met Mark and Linda again here who had circumnavigated the headland in the opposite direction to us.

We followed the route down a lane to Llanbedrog Beach. I have memories of coming here with my family many years ago but it turned out to be a painful experience for my young daughter. She was running with me around the headland and stood on the venemous spine of a weever fish buried in the wet sand. The sting is extremely painful and it was quite a long way back to our picnic spot on the beach so we hurried back as fast as we could. By the time we got there the pain had subsided, maybe helped by the fact it was a hot day and the heat from the sand may have denatured the protein venom a bit.

From Llanbedrog, we followed the path through fields along the edge of the coast to a track. We followed a path parallel to the track along a raised bank for a while and then realised we should have followed the track so we cut across on to it. Eventually we reached the outskirts of Pwllheli and arrived back at the car parked on the Embankment.

9.41 miles