We spent Christmas with some of the family at a house on the Conwy Estuary, looking straight across the water to the magnificent battlements of Conwy Castle. Each day we walked, twice into the hills and....
....once along the coastline to the Great Orme headland from which there were fine views up the estuary.
As we walked back along the sands and the tide retreated it left three of these monster jellyfish. They were barrel jellyfish,
Rhizostoma pulmo, a not-uncommon jellyfish in the Irish Sea but not one which would be expected to be active in mid-winter - the Wildlife Trust describes them as coming ashore in May and June.
On Christmas morning we walked into the higher hills of the Snowdonia National Park, in weather which was about as perfect as one could possibly hope for in North Wales, yet we hardly met a soul.
Many thanks to the family for all the work they put in to making these few days so very special for us.
Family group photo courtesy Mark.
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