Please note that the published co-ordinates
are for the best carparking, not the cache!
Quakers Cache -
Llwyngwril
The Place
The village of Llwyngwril gets its name from a grove (llwyn) by
the river Gwril and it’s where I live. The cache is located
on a part of the beach, known to local surfers as
“Quakers” because of a Friends’ burial ground
there. There is an information board next to the graveyard with
more about the history of the place and its links to Bryn Mawr
University in the USA. Please note that the cache
is not hidden in or near the burial ground. To get to the
beach you’ll need to cross the railway. The trains hoot their
horns when they approach the pedestrian crossing but please take
care crossing the tracks.
The beach has a bit of sand but is mainly rocky pools, which are
good for looking for seashore animals at low tide. When a big swell
is running, it's an excellent surf spot, so long as your craft can
cut across the faces of the fast-peeling waves. There is a big, red
life belt box to save swimmers from the raging sea. It is also a
popular spot for dog-walkers, so mind your feet! The small cliffs
here are made from silt and boulders that were washed down by water
from the glaciers that melted at the end of the last ice-age.
They’re a bit crumbly, so be careful at the bottom of the
cliffs and please don’t climb on them. Glaciers carried rocks
down from all the surrounding hills and the beach is a great to
place to hunt for nice pebbles.
If you would like to spend some time exploring the beach at low
tide, check the tide table here at
Magic Seaweed.
There are 2 other caches in the village. My "sideTracked -
Llwyngwril"
GC1C2E4 is near the railway station and Climber1958's "Castell
y Gaer"
GCQWD8 provides some great views from above the village.
Although Llwyngwril is a small village, it has some excellent
facilities for passing geocachers. There is a shop, post-office,
cafe and pub. You can get to the village by bus or train as well as
the road from Dolgellau to the north and Tywyn to the south.
The Puzzle
Follow the track down to the beach as far as the Friends' Burial
Ground. Take the date from the gate and spilt it into two 2 digit
numbers, A and B. For example, if the date was 1837, then A would
be 18 and b would be 37.
Put the numbers into the partial co-ordinates below to get the
location of the cache:
N52º 40.(240+B)
W004º 05.(019+A)
Good luck with the puzzle and I hope that you
have a good time at the beach. Happy caching, Gwyddno.
