This morning we took the canoes out again to visit Dave. Rhodri had left his backpack there so we had to get over and fetch it. We took the kids, Will, Laura and Lili along also! It was a lovely, calm, hazy morning (hazy from the forest fires burning nearby) and again was such a treat to be out on the water. We got the backpack, paddled back, stopped at the Bakery for treats, and then said goodbye to Laura, Lili, Jo and Phil who left on the slow boat around 2pm.
By this time, the day was really hot - perfect conditions to make a trip up to the Emerald Pool, which is a hike and then several hundred meters of wading upstream until you reach the big fallen tree and the boulder at the entrance to Boulder Falls.
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| Tryfan with Lisl and Rhiannon in the background |
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| The Emerald Pool |
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| The Fam |
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| The view back downstream from the Emerald Pool boulder |
It was about 10 degrees cooler once we got near the water and that felt so wonderful. There was still quite a bit of water coming down so you had to choose safe places to wade through the creek, but it was fine. Once we got up to the pool though, the waterfall was so loud and relentless that it was quite unnerving! Rhodri jumped in the water, but he said he could feel a current pulling down so that freaked the rest of us out although the kids got in a little bit with Rhods' help.
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| Beautiful afternoon light and Tryfan looking weird |
We got back down and rode our bikes back to the house so that we could get ready for dinner up at the Ranch.
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