The river Glasffrwd under the embankment near the car park.
Meadows bear Crofftau farm.
Junction of the old and new forest roads running largely parallel.
Orange moss on the north side of trees.
Ford through the Glasffrwd on the track to Blaen Glasffrwd.
A little vortex in the turbulent Glasffrwd.
Hailstorm engulfing Esgair Brith and Blaen Glasffrwd.
<- The ford near Blaen Glasffrwd.
Better weather down in the Teifi plain!
Log alley at Bwlch Rhyd y Meirch.
A muddy pond left by felling operations at Bwlch Rhyd y Meirch.
Moorland steaming in the sun after a brisk hailstorm.
A mossy bank by the side of the forest road.
This "secret quarry" near Bwlch Rhyd y Meirch is used to extract gravel for the forest roads in Esgair Llyn-Du forest.
Forest road leading towards Esgair Llyn Du.
The first glimpse of Llyn Du.
Llyn Du is a bit out of the way at the end of a dead-end forest road. There is a narrow path through the forest that continues past the lake, but it ends in bog at the southern end of the lake.
Firebreak south of Llyn Du.
The edge of the forest is in sight at the end of the firebreak...
...but the Nant y Maen turns the forest edge into a treacherous bog, at least at this time of year!
The remaining pictures show the biennial dredging operation in Aberystwyth harbour.
<- The neatly stacked logs at Bwlch Rhyd y Meirch on the way back again, this time in sunshine.
The dredgers remove silt from the river bed (of the tidal Afon Rheidol) as it passes through the central section of the harbour. The articulated trucks take the material out of the harbour using the slipway into the disused sewage basin.
The material is then dropped at the south end of South Beach, from where the tides distribute it gradually across the beach over a period of weeks, countering the effects of coastal erosion.
The whole operation is carefully timed as there is only a very short time window during an exceptional spring tide where there is sufficient time for the dredgers to get into the harbour basin.