Snowdon and Menai

Sat 9th Oct - weather fine but windy.
We rode the Snowdon narrow gauge railway but only got 2/3 of the way up.












Once into the cloud - the driver got out and measured the wind speed at 66 mph! Later it increased to 70mph, It certainly rocked the little train about. Quite exciting with 1,000 ft drops either side. Luckily we could not see that too well!














Just a few hundred foot lower and it was really quite nice. A lot of people were hiking up and also some mountain bike riders. Hope they didn't try to make it ll the way to the summit.











That's one impressive set of walls - one would have to be an optimist to attack from here.
















Later we took a short cruise on the Menai Strait (the channel between Wales and the Island of Anglesea (also in Wales? And the home of the town of Hollyhead where some of the car ferries go to Ireland)

And as the sun started to sink into the West.... The end of an almost perfect day weatherwise.