18 Mar 2026

[Will add photos to this post soon]

From the bridge over the Afon Gwril river I walked along the road to a track on the left which climbed steeply up to a hill fort called Castell y Gaer. It consists of an outer rampart and ditch with an inner rampart made of stones. There’s a nice view back towards Snowdonia and the Llŷn peninsula from here. I continued along a concrete farm track and over fields to a small tree looking like it had grown out of the rock it was stood on. Carrying on to a road, the path follows it down towards the coast but leaves it at a sharp angle on the left back up a steep hill. I have a bird app called Merlin and it identified a flock of about 12 corvids as Choughs. They seem to be fairly common around here.

I crossed fields to a picturesque old abandoned farmhouse where I stopped for a drink and a snack and continued across more fields dotted with heavily flowered gorse smelling of coconut. More fields with a nice view of the sea followed and I passed a stand of connifers where I heard, but didn’t see, a goldcrest. I eventually ended up on a road going past the Tŷ Cerrig Glamping site and then the path follows another narrow road towards the A493. A path goes right across fields here but I went slightly wrong, walking along the edge of a field instead of the path but I soon got back on track and reached the main road at a small farmhouse. The path then continued on the opposite side of the road past then behind the farm.

After crossing a field I came to a house where 3 of the loudest, persistant, barking dogs I’ve come across on these walks. What they lacked in size was made up with volume and duration of barking. They were in a garden above a high wall which was too high for them to jump off, thankfully. Carrying on along the road I passed the Llanfendigaid Estate which comprises a house, land and buildings many of which are now luxury holiday homes. The most remarkable thing about the house is that it had been owned by the same family for at least 600 years and possibly over 800 years. The last owner was Will Garton-Jones who is the 40th traceable generation of this family. He sold the estate in 2022 bringing the family ownership to an end.

I continued down the road towards the coast and the tiny station at Tonfanau. A pair of red kites were circling above – the first I’ve seen on this charity walk. I decided to have lunch in the small shelter on the platform, mainly for a bit of shade from the sun. After eating my butties I continued along the road and met a group of pilgrims who seemed to be debating which way to go. They told me they were walking the Llwybr Cadfan (Cadfan Trail). It runs for 128 miles from Towyn to Aberdaron near Bardsey Island. I wished them luck and carried on to a modern bridge over the Afon Dysynni river designed for pedstrians, cyclists and equestrians.

The path continued along a road towards Tywyn and I saw some houses ahead. They were very familiar and I reckoned they must be RAF houses. I, myself, live on an RAF estate and the architecture was almost identical. When I got home I did some research and discovered they were for RAF Tywyn otherwise known as Morfa Camp. After passing the RAF estate I turned right over a level crossing to the waterfront and then left along the Tywyn Promenade. A lot of fairly large pebbles had been deposited on the prom by storms. After passing the end of the car park the path went past a static caravan park and then along the dunes.

I should have walked along the beach but from the map it looked like the path went along the dunes so that’s what I did. I had to avoid many rabbit holes and saw quite a few of the occupants in the field. I eventually came to a bit next to a golf course and the way was blocked by fencing. I realised that I should have walked along the beach so retraced my steps back until I found a safe spot to climb down. I continued along the beach to the mouth of the Afon Dyfi river passing a WWII concrete pill box on the beach. I don’t know if this is correct but it looked like it might have once been at the top of the dunes and has ended up on the beach due to erosion. I continued on to Aberdyfi lifeboat station and along the waterfront road to the end of my walk where the path climbs up the hillside behind the town.

12.15 miles