With much attention of late focussed upon the ever reliable winter venue of Porth Ysgo, it seems timely to drop some other Lleyn flavoured ventures on the NWB.com decks. Take it away Big G:

Dear NWB.com readers,

This is not the clearest picture, but I think you will agree that the huge boulder on the northern slopes of Bardsey Mountain constitutes a formidable discovery, perhaps significant enough to require a re-write of history.

It does provide an explanation for those who may have questioned the motivations of a thousand visiting ‘saints’ buried there - clearly they were early boulderers. Indeed legend has it that the more successful individuals, doing problems in their purest form, thus came to be regarded as saints; just as they (we) are today. (They may even have been the earliest recorded saints!) Indeed, some of the climbing was so powerful that they required a life of abstinence, and a diet of bird’s eggs and puddle water.

Because of the sheer number of problems hereabouts, few if any of them ever returned to the mainland, which is why Porth Ysgo held out right up until the late twentieth century.

Boat trips to the island are available during the summer months, mostly operating from Abersoch and Aberdaron. They tend, if nothing else, to be of benefit to one’s strength to weight ratio, as it is impossible not to honk up throughout each journey.

Love to all and a powerful new year,

Big G

xx

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