Blue Lake is a lagoon in an old quarry.
In the early 1860’s slate was quarried here at the Golwern Quarry and then taken to Fairbourne for boating across the estuary to Barmouth.
Best parking is in the village of Friog
OS SH617123 Allow 20 minutes to reach the cache.
Take the ‘no through road’ opposite the telephone box.
Walk up the single track road until a foot-path sign and ladder stile is reached.
Take the rough track to reach a bridge on your right,(be extra careful here if wet) continue under the bridge to reach the the quarry level of the geocache.
Hope you enjoy the views!
After visiting the cache, continue under the near-by incline bridge to reach the next quarry level and the SAFE TO ENTER TUNNEL into Blue lake.
Have fun!
Clues for magnetic compass-
From the cache, centre of slate dressing shed bears 188° and 53 paces away.
Don't forget your ink pad to take an impression of the ( not for swap )rubber stamp found in the letterbox hybrid cache.