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#cymru

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JanPV

North Wales is a dystopian tourist hell today.

All very sad: everybody causing traffic chaos, parking nightmares, just to take an 'Insta' shot and then leave, often dumping their rubbish on the ground behind them.

Three more years, and I'm out of here. It's become a very, very sick joke.

#cymru#wales#tourism
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JanPV

Happy Easter! This year, if you're taking a break in Eryri, don't be one of the very many idiots who throws their picnic waste on the ground in the expectation it will miraculously vanish of its own accord.

Respect the environment. Respect Wales.

#eryri#snowdonia#wales
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JanPV

I hope you enjoy this wash fold I captured today, because it was the hardest walk through the most awful terrain I've ever undertaken!

Some past, not very good studies have suggested round forms indicate building over prehistoric structures, but this is invariably not the case.

Rounder enclosures instead just cause less panic in sheep and are often easier to build when the stone supply is limited.

348m amsl in the Denbigh Moors.

A wash fold alongside a stream in the Denbigh Moors. Rounded wall structures are common, as they reduce panic in sheep being contained.
Vertical drone view of the wash fold and stream.
#sheep#farming#heritage
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Cassian [main]

Greetings! Can I interest you in a heartwarming donation and/or signal boost of this small Welsh town volunteer-organised Pride festival?

justgiving.com/crowdfunding/sa

Pride is deeply needed in rural Wales, where being queer can be so isolating. And since it's only small, you get a lot of bang for your buck - 16% of the £750 goal has been raised already. :)

Last year was our first Pride (Balchder in Welsh), and thanks to signal boosts on Mastodon and Tumblr it was fully funded within 24 hours, it was EPIC and the organisers were so chuffed that they COULD NOT EVEN.

Lovely queers in a sunny garden with a rainbow-coloured big top circus tent in the background.
Lovely queers basking in a sunny garden with the big town council building in the background and a rainbow-coloured big top circus tent nearby.
#pride#balchder#Wales
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Greenseer (Dionne/Dee) 🩷🐇🏳️‍⚧️

Popped up to the castle at the end of yesterday's walk as the skies had cleared, the light was improved and I hoped to get decent pics

The presently visible stone castle was probably built in the 1260s by Gruffydd Maelor II, a prince of Powys Fadog, on the site of several earlier structures, including an Iron Age hillfort

#Cymru #photography 💕

Castle ruins along the top of a steep hill, against partly cloudy, partly blue skies
View from within the grassy space surrounded by the remaining walls and towers of a ruined castle, all in shadow cast by passing clouds, looking out through a gap in the wall ahead to the cliff faces of the adjacent escarpment, partly sunlit and beneath mostly clear blue skies. To the right of the gap, the castle wall reveals a passage closed by a black iron gate
View from the castle mound, one ruined turret to the left, silhouetted by the sun on the distant horizon, looking across the undulating fields of the valley far below, broken by patches of small woodland, all accentuated by light and shadow cast by the low sun
View from maybe 150 feet below the castle peak, looking up a steep, stony, rubble strewn slope to the castle itself, contrasting with the bright blue skies behind and above, with a few puffs of white cumulus cloud
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Greenseer (Dionne/Dee) 🩷🐇🏳️‍⚧️

Evening Friendlings 💕

Of course, I didn't have a lazy day. A walk beckoned, which turned into a lovely long stroll around the valley and many photographs. Just got back and am looking forward to a hefty portion of fish and chips

I'll just share the corvid pics to start with, and also share a link to a video of a peaceful, calming stream where I had lunch, to soothe your restless spirits

Love to you all 😘

A rook flying against blue skies, wings and tail feathers spread wide with good velvety black detail as sunlight grazes its underside. Characteristic white, quite pointed bill
A rook perched in treetops (a copse of trees that were home to a large rookery), it's head turned right. High hills out of focus, beyond
Another rook landing on a slender branch at the top of a tree, grasping it with it's claws, wings still outstretched to balance, against backdrop of cliff face of escarpment
And lastly, one of the rooks' smaller and sweeter cousins, a jackdaw. A friendly little one who was curious and hopped close to permit a nice shot in a sloping grassy area dotted with flowers. It's bright blue eyes are watching me
#corvids#cymru
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Robert Sanscartier

Climate Cymru are raising the alarm over a devastating wildfire that has raged for four days across Cwm Rheidol in Ceredigion, Wales. The wildfire has spread across an area equivalent to 4,000 football pitches. Now climate groups, firefighters, and sustainability experts are urgently calling for action over it and the climate crisis

thecanary.co/uk/news/2025/04/1

Canary · Climate Cymru raise alarm over wildfire that burns equivalent of 4,000 football pitchesClimate Cymru head says "Wales is on the frontline of the climate emergency" as gigantic wildfires spread across Cwm Rheidol
#Wales#Cymru#ClimateChange
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Helen Clayton

A fabulous walk today from Aberystwyth to Ynyslas along the Ceredigion coast path. Sunshine and sea mist and the delicious coconut scent of gorse.

I timed my walk for low tide at the end, which exposed some of the prehistoric petrified forest between Borth and Ynyslas, associated with the legendary sunken civilisation of Cantre'r Gwaelod. It was even more mysterious in the sea mist, which rolled in and out like the tide, revealing and hiding features as it did so.

Photo of a petrified tree stump rising up from a sandy beach. The wood grain is clearly visible under a blanket of green filamentous seaweed.
Photo of a petrified tree stump and roots covered in green seaweed on a sandy beach. It is surrounded by pools left by the retreating tide. A marker post stands behind it but the beach and coastline beyond is disappearing into a grey sea mist.
Photo of another stump that looks rather crab like. The mist has lifted momentarily revealing a sliver of blue sea and sky.
Photo of a view back along the misty beach. Dark lumps of the forest are scattered among pools in the sand. A marker post stands guard. There is a glimmer of brightness above the mist and reflected in the water.
#Cymru
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JanPV

I've seen many manganese quarries and mines, but never one quite like this. Repeated piles of stones, apparently spoil heaps but they are quite odd. The narrow vein must have been chased on the surface.

The landscape is almost all sandstone and mudstone, about half a billion years old.

Vertical drone view of the manganese quarry.
A closer drone view of the neatly-piled rock mounds. It's not clear whether these were waste - the blocks are quite large - or destined for later processing that never happened.
An apparent explanation for the quarrying method for manganese in this area. From https://www.nmrs.org.uk/assets/lookinside/bm14lookinside.pdf
#quarries#mines#drone
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