Just some of the Activities on offer in and around Brynygwin, Dolgellau, Wales.
This colour indicates Activities on offer actually at Brynygwin.
- Barbecues in your garden or on the terrace (portable Outback).
- Bat counting Our 600 lesser horseshoes, 1000 pipistrelles, officially counted every June.
- Birdwatching 90+ species including goshawks, hawfinches, peregrine falcons (see second photo).
- Canoeing Mawddach estuary, Rivers Wnion, Mawddach, Eden, Gain, Gamlan, Dyfi.
- Castles, houses Caernarfon, Erddig, Harlech, Penrhyn, Powys, Portmeirion.
- Cycling green lanes, Mawddach Trail, country lanes, National network route 8.
- Dog exercising tracks through our woodland, our old carriageway to the town and back by run-free recreation green, also our two fields when resting from sheep.
- Ecology Alternative Technology Centre.
- Fishing Coarse and fly, own 100m riverbank (see photo alongside), free Dolgellau Angling Association permit to 13 miles river and spectacular lake, salmon, sea and brown trout, perch (lake).
- Games ideal garden for treasure hunts, flat area of lawn for ball games, and Dolgellaus spacious nearby recreation green.
- Golf Dolgellau, Aberdovey, Borth, Harlech.
- Horse riding Arthog, Dyffryn.
- Mountain-biking Coed y Brenin (see photo below, left), Cli-machx, Mach, Nant yr Arian, Gwydyr.
- Mountains Cader Idris, Arans, Rhinogs, Arenigs, Moelwyns, Snowdon.
- Nature Trails Llanbedr, Harlech, Vyrnwy.
- Painting, Sketching the garden and grounds provide endless inspiration. No wonder Hugh John Reveley sketched himself (last photo, bottom right) sketching in its grounds!
- Photography Countless subjects here like the bird alongside, taken from The Mews cottage.
- Sailing Bala Lake, Barmouth, Llanbedr.
- Swimming beaches (Fairbourne, Barmouth), pools (Tywyn, Harlech).
- Television our digital Sony TVs allow screen enjoyment of camera images, DVDs, etc.
- Walking 30+ own guide sheets for home-start walks (3-16 miles), plus numerous official guides (like Precipice Walk) collected over years (see photo of the Black Falls, right).
- Wildlife our woodland (badgers, polecats), our roofs (bats, owls), our ponds, (dragonflies, herons), our riverbank (otters, mink).
 |
 |
|
| A group of mountain-bikers setting off from Brynygwin to the Coed y Brenin forest. | The Black Falls at Ganllwyd, goal of one of our many printed walks. |
Gilbert & Pamela Gauntlett
Brynygwin Isaf
Dolgellau
Postcode: LL40 1YA
Tel: + 44 (0) 1341 423481
Email: info@holidaysinwales.org.uk
Part of our own 100 metre fishing beat on the River Wnion just below the house.
Greenfinch, one of many birds on The Mews garden wall photographed by Walter Covell while on holiday in the cottage. Others were blackbird, chaffinch, blue tit, great tit and nuthatch.
