Sgwd Gwladus Waterfall

I’ve been keen to get back to Wales to explore some waterfalls since a trip last year, this time the destination was the Sgwd Gwladus waterfall on the Elidir trail, as it looks absolutely perfect.

Now I know there are already thousands of photos of this waterfall, and my plan to take a long exposure photo isn’t exactly ground breaking in its originality. But I don’t care. Even if it looks identical to every other photo, it will be my photo. Sometimes you have to just embrace the obvious, otherwise there would be no point in doing anything, as almost everything has already been done.

It’s a perfect daytrip spot, as you can park in the village, I feel like such a dad saying this, but there is plenty of parking, even on a sunny busy day, we found a spot no problem. Once you’re on the trail it’s a 40-50 mins straight path to the waterfall, though with a toddler and a dog it took at least double that time, but it’s nice weather, there’s no rush.

We lost count of the amount of people that overtook us on the way there, and then passed us again, this time heading the back the other way before we had even reached the waterfall. Though I think some people must have got to the waterfall, stopped for 30 seconds so they can say they’ve seen it, and then head straight back.

On the trail I spotted a few of these entrances that have been completely sealed, must be to stop people exploring them, and getting themselves into trouble.

There were a couple of nearby churches that looked photogenic, and were worth stopping at, I would have loved to explore a little more, but a tired hungry toddler meant I had other priorities.

Plus a pylon shot, as big ugly structures are like catnip to me, I can’t resist.

Last little shot was an opportunistic one through the windshield when we had to pull over just before taking the big road out. I’m never quite happy with iphone shots, but I took this with bayercam and it turned out ok.