Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th June 2023
A picturesque drive to Porthmadog had us breathing in at times on some narrow stretches but lovely scenery made up for it. We parked up in Porthmadog on a car par park next to the railway station, you can stay overnight there but I had booked a campsite nearby. We had a slow walk around the town and bought a few items from Edinburgh Nylon Mill and a few items from Tesco. It was then a short drive to the campsite.
I’d pre-booked a two night stay on Black Rock Sands Campsite adjacent to the beach, I’ve known of the beach for decades but had never visited it.The 12 acre site is quite informal with the majority of it sprawled across what may have been a quarry, you can pitch where you like if you don’t need EHU and groups of people had pitched their tents in a circle and were having a pleasant time, it has a modern toilet block and a hut that serves food on some evenings and breakfast in the mornings.
Black Rock Sands aren’t black but some of the rocky outcrops behind the dunes are, the beach is extremely flat and about two miles long you can pay to park on there and there is a designated area to launch jet skis. The southern end is the estuary to Porthmadog whilst to the north is Criccieth.
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