After all the excitement of the holidays it was still suprisingly good to be back in North Wales dodging the showers again! Ages ago on a trip to Ceuse, I had asked a guy what it was like living in Grenoble and he had said 'it is nice, but there are no seals in the alps'. This was not the first inconvienience I would have come up with, but since this conversation I have begun to greatly appreciate the presence of these blubbery sea dogs in my life and as a result have spent most of the past weeks by the sea side. Sea side destinations have included the Orme to start redpointing Homo sapien, Rhoscolyn to follow Sophie up Godzilla (and get rather stuck under the roof again), Gogarth to have an adventure up the dusty rock snakes of Mousetrap and the ruined brickworks near Bull Bay to go and swim in some phospherescence!
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| Sophie takes on Godzilla! |
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| Rich heading through the window down the south stack lighthouse steps - we ended up abseiling from the other side as the sea was too rough to get across |
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| Finding the way through a sea of rock snakes on pitch 1 |
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| dusty chimneys on the second pitch |
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| Escaping the trap! |
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| The brickworks the morning after phospherescent swimming! My camera is not good enough to capture the phospherescence itself... |
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| Back home for the weekend - some more open water training. Have bought the brightest hat I could find, I may not be fast but at least I am visible! |
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