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Penrhyn Nefyn.

Start. Morfa Nefyn (National Trist car park).

Route. Morfa Nefyn (National Trist car park) - Coast Path - Lon Penrallt - Penrhyn Nefyn - Nefyn - Lon Y Traeth - B4417 - Lon Tyn-Pwll - Lon Penrallt - Coast Path - Morfa Nefyn - Lon Bridin - Morfa Nefyn (National Trist car park).

Notes. The history of Nefyn can be traced back to 300BC, an Iron Age hill fort Garn Boduan overlooks the town. Nefyn has had the privilege to played host to pilgrims, Welsh princes and English kings, herring fleets. In the 18th and 19th centuries this was a massive trade with almost 40 herring boats sailing from the harbour. But lets not get bogged down in the pages of the history books, we were here to finish the previous walk, we cut short due to the need to find a nice beach and enjoy the sunshine.

Again we parked in the Morfa Nefyn car park, again we descended the steep steps, this time we ascended the other side joining the coastal path above Caenarfon Bay. Vegetation above the cliff tops limited the views, every now and then a gap in the undergrowth gifted us with stunning vistas over Porth Dinllarn and the vast expanse of Caenarfon Bay, to the east Penrhyn Nefyn backed by cliffs and mountains, also mist, a great tongue reaching towards land creeping closer with every step we took.

In the north of England we call this sea fret or haar, it mainly blows in from the east on a chilly breeze, this was coming from the west on a warm breeze, perhaps the Welsh have another name for it, me I called it spooky. Spooky or not we continued along the coast path, for a moment we left the coast to follow a narrow tarmac lane before cutting back to the cliff tops. On reaching Penrhyn Nefyn we sat for ages watching the haar drift towards us, swallowing beach and headland in an unstoppable sweep along the coast, until the fronds of mist were wrapping around us.

Gone were the views replaced by a wall of grey, we continued to Nefyn where we descended to the beach, wandered to the harbour then back for lunch in the beach cafe, I’d like to use the Welsh name but to me it was completely unpronounceable. Lunch over we ascended Lon Y Treath to join the main road, we followed this west out of Nefyn, after passing a small industrial estate a single ribbon of tarmac emerged on the right, this we followed.

After two sharp left hand bends and a long straight we reached a third bend, this time we continued straight on. Over familiar ground we walked, this stoney track guided us earlier, we soon emerged on the cliff top path, but we could have been anywhere. With no views to stop and soak up we soon reached the flight of steps climbed earlier, after descending we wandered up the tarmac road to access a path cutting between houses, this ejected us into the car park.

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