We decided to do one of the circular caching walks to the south of HolyHead. We picked a cloud and windy day for the walk but it was enjoyable. The route was roughly 3.5 miles long and most of it was along the costal path.
Parked up near to St Gwenfaen’s Church and set off walking
GC242Q7 – Tywrideen
The first cache on the walk for us. We liked this cache as once we started to walk to the next cache through the field we had a swallow flying round our group in a large circle, rising high behind us and swooping close to the ground in front of us almost in touching distance. It was a great experience to see the swallow so close.
GC2DJ5K – Gromlech View
After much searching for this we could not find it, despite looking at the hint. Will have to come back for this one another day. Don’t really like having a DNF on a circular route, but this one is near to a road so coming back in the future won’t mean having to do all the walk again just to get one cache.
GC242P8 – Little Bay
Start of some stunning coastal scenery on the route that we had taken. It was very windy, but the sun had come out. If we had the time and the weather was good this would have been an ideal place for a picnic and some crabbing in all the rock pools in the bay.
GC242P0 – Old School Desk
Nice big cache hidden with some goodies for the kids. There are some great coastal features near by including an arch in the cliff around a small bay.
GC242MR – Tyger
Found the carved stone and then located the cache nicely hidden a short distance away. The stone is in memory of a dog who saved his master and crew from their boat that capsized.
GC242NB – Oh What a Wall
That is some dry stone wall built along the coastal path. A precision built dry stone wall surrounded a field and gave them shelter from the prevailing winds and also stopped them from venturing so close to the cliff edge. There is a lot of skill and craftsmanship gone into the building of this wall. A great coastal feature near by was a blow hole. Found the cache nicely hidden and away from the winds.
GC242NJ – St Gwenfaen’s Well
This was my favourite cache on the walk, not because of the cache itself, but of the feature that it is near to – St Gwenfaen’s Well, although today I would have doubts dangling my feet in it or drinking its waters.
The cache page says “St Gwenfaen's Holy Well, Rhoscolyn is one of the best preserved of the well chambers in Anglesey. There are many "holy" wells on the island, most with healing powers, but some were "cursing wells". The well at Rhoscolyn is said to cure mental disorders, and it was customary to throw white quartz pebbles into the water. The date of the stonework is unknown. It consists of a sunken antechamber with a stone paved floor and four seats across the corners. Beyond is an enclosed pool with seats at either side, and in front of that an open pool approached by three steps on each side. The water is held behind a vertical slab and spills over a notch into a narrow stone-lined channel and thence over the edge of the cliff.”
GC242N6 – Rhoscolyn View
This cache is near to an old coastguard lookout point, a Trig point and a walkers shelter. Lots of sheep around this area and now wall to keep them in. Found the cache after some searching and spending most of my time looking at the stunning views.
GC2DJ5J – An Eagle’s View
Walking down to the last cache on the series and the end of a great walk. This cache takes you to the White Eagle pub, but unfortunately I was driving so no beer for me.
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