Lon Las Ogwen
Date
30 August 2020
Location
Hydro Ogwen Scheme turbine house, Lon Las Ogwen, Bethesda
SH 62451 65677; 53.170381°N, 4.059216°W
Lon Las Ogwen
Ogwen Bank Falls
Ogwen Bank Falls
Date
30 August 2020
Location
Ogwen Bank, Bethesda
SH 62633 65403; 53.16795°N, 4.05639°W
Information
Further Reading
Conwy Water Gardens
Pheasant, Conwy Water Gardens
Date
16 August 2020
Location
Rowen, Conwy
SH 76563 72830; 53.23809°N, 3.85099°W
Information
Solar Halo
22° halo
Date
31 July 2020
Location
Bethesda, Wales
Information
Further Reading
Waterfalls, Afon Caseg
Waterfall, Afon Caseg
Date
26 July 2020
Location
Gwernydd, Bethesda
SH 63673 66118; 53.17464°N, 4.04115°W
Comet Neowise II
Star and comet trails. 15 second exposure (ISO 6400) using a 480 mm focal-length telescope as a telephoto lens.
Date
21 July 2020
Location
Viewed from Bethesda, North Wales.
Information
Further Reading
Comet Neowise I
Comet Neowise. Viewed from the summit of Gyrn Wigau (643 m above sea level) in the Carneddau mountain range, looking down onto Bangor, Anglesey and the Menai strait.
Date
19 July 2020
Location
Gyrn Wigau, Caneddau mountain range
SH 65415 67531; 53.18778°N, 4.01570°W
Information
Comet Neowise was discovered on 27 March 2020 by NASA’s Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) space telescope mission. The comet’s nucleus has an estimated diameter of 5 km and at it’s closest (on 23 July 2020) it was 103 million km from Earth. It was visible with the naked eye during July 2020. Don’t worry if you missed it though – it will be back around again in 6,800 years time.
Further Reading
C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) (Wikipedia);
You can see Comet NEOWISE this month (CNN)
Slate Quarry, Caseg Valley
Lichen
Date
20 June 2020
Location
Caseg Valley, Carneddau
SH 65202 66723; 53.18046°N, 4.01853°W
Information
Further Reading
Shinrin-Yoku
Braichmelyn Forest
Date
7 June 2020
Location
Braichmelyn Forest, Bethesda
SH 63198 65597; 53.16984°N, 4.04802°W
Yr Elen
Panorama from summit of Yr Elen
Date
30 May 2020
Location
Yr Elen, Carneddau
SH 67345 65012; 53.16564°N, 3.98577°W
Carnedd Llewelyn
Panorama from summit of Carnedd Llewelyn.
Looking towards Carnedd Dafydd.
Date
30 May 2020
Location
Carnedd Llewelyn, Carneddau
SH 68363 64374; 53.16015°N, 3.97030°W
Carnedd Dafydd
Panorama from top of Carnedd Dafydd
Date
30 May 2020
Location
Carnedd Dafydd, Carneddau
SH 66288 63048; 53.14773°N, 4.00076°W
Lockdown summit yoga
Shirshasana (headstand)
Date
30 May 2020
Location
Carnedd Dafydd, Carneddau
SH 66288 63048; 53.14773°N, 4.00076°W
Coetmor Church
Coetmor Church
Date
2 May 2020
Location
Ffordd Coetmor, Bethesda
SH 61785 67731; 53.18864°N, 4.07006°W
Information
Coetmor Church is an Anglican chapel of ease. Its churchyard is adjecent to the nonconformist burial ground Coetmor Cemetery.
Further Reading
Afon Ogwen Footbridge, Tanysgafell
Footbridge
Date
25 April 2020
Location
Afon Ogwen, Tanysgafell, Bethesda
SH 61636 66764; 53.17992°N, 4.07187°W
Information
Further Reading
Afon Ogwen Footbridge (fire spinning);
All posts about Afon Ogwen
Caseg valley
Elidir Fawr and Carnedd y Filiast
Date
19 April 2020
Location
Caseg valley, Carneddau
SH 67147 66594; 53.17980°N, 3.98940°W
Carnedd Dafydd
Carnedd Dafydd
Date
19 April 2020
Location
Gerlan, Bethesda
SH 63383 66555; 53.17849°N, 4.04567°W
Information
Further Reading
Views from Mynydd Du
Carnedd y Filiast
Date
13 April 2020
Location
Mynydd Du, Carneddau
SH 65189 64958; 53.16460°N, 4.01799°W
Information
Further Reading
Moel Faban – circumambulation
Tan-y-foel
Date
10 April 2020
Location
Moel Faban
SH 63178 67520; 53.18711°N, 4.04914°W
Information
Further Reading
Tynal Tywyll, Lon Las Ogwen – Dinas Railway Tunnel
Dinas Tunnel – the former branch-line railway tunnel between Tregarth and Bethesda, known informally as Tynal Tywyll (dark tunnel).
Date
4 April 2020
Location
Dinas Tunnel, Lon Las Ogwen, Tregarth
SH 60818 68185; 53.19247°N, 4.08473°W
