Sgwd Gwladus Waterfall

I’ve been keen to get back Wales to explore some waterfalls since a trip last year, this time to visit Sgwd Gwladus 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 you can guarantee someone else would have already done it.

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 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 passed us on the way, who we then saw heading back past the other day, before we had even reached the waterfall. Though I think some people get to the waterfall, stop 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.

Plus a pylon shot, as these are like catnip to me, as someone who is obsessed with ugly metal structures, plus this one was huge!

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.