Nant Llech 2009
Wales Ape & Monkey Sanctuary, and the waterfalls below it.
Fox at the sanctuary - not an ape or a monkey, but apparently in need of some care. The sanctuary primarily cares for rescued or abandoned apes and monkeys. Why is it in Wales, where humans are the only native primate? Because it is. Shhh.
Capuchin monkeys cuddling and grooming.
Capuchin.
Gibbon, sitting, reading. Looks like an interesting book.
Lost in thought, worrying what might happen in chapter 2.
Grey wolf, with complete heterochromia.
Baboon, letting me know what she thinks of photography.
Baboon alpha male. Apparently not everything is important when determining status as an alpha male, but he still seems proud enough to show it off. Thanks, I guess.
Valentine's day card.
Hiding.
What are you looking at?
Mandrill.
A very childish spider monkey.
Chimp. They all looked quite bored, like a bunch of old folks waiting for the bus.
Oh, it's only the number 35.
Ponies waiting absolutely motionlessly in a circle, like a carousel that was not switched on. Every few minutes, they would rotate one position.
Down below the sanctuary is Nant Llech, with the tallest waterfall in South Wales, Sgwd Henrhyd. It's quoted as 90 feet tall, which translates to 27.4 metres. It is randomly quoted as 27, 28 or 29 metres when translating - you choose what the actual height is. This is the cliff ledge path running behind the waterfall, making it one of several waterfalls in Waterfall Country that it is possible to walk behind (a possibility which I failed to notice last time I visited). The path does not continue on the near bank, however.
Just downstream from Sgwd Henrhyd is this 3 metre waterfall.
Smaller fall (1.5 metres max) below it.
Small inlet waterfall, nicknamed Needle Falls. Though only a small stream, it's actually quite tall; 6.5 metres.
Beautiful lighting in Graig Llech forest.
Nant Llech valley.
Melin-Llech, the remains of the old mill.
The waterfall by Melin-Llech, a little over 3 metres high.
Step in the stream.
Step with garlic.
The map also shows this waterfall near the end of the valley, but it's barely a cascade, and covered by a fallen tree. Not worthy.
A tree so green, in autumn, it would have brown leaves and green branches. Intended to confuse children.
Nant Llech ends where it joins the Tawe (unlike all other rivers in Waterfall Country, which flow into the Nedd/Neath river), the river that separates the Black Mountain and Fforest Fawr mountain ranges.
"Side" view of Fan Hir (761 metres), with Fan Brycheiniog (802 metres) behind it.
Sea King. Wrong lens. Again.
Fox at the sanctuary - not an ape or a monkey, but apparently in need of some care. The sanctuary primarily cares for rescued or abandoned apes and monkeys. Why is it in Wales, where humans are the only native primate? Because it is. Shhh.
Capuchin monkeys cuddling and grooming.
Capuchin.
Gibbon, sitting, reading. Looks like an interesting book.
Lost in thought, worrying what might happen in chapter 2.
Grey wolf, with complete heterochromia.
Baboon, letting me know what she thinks of photography.
Baboon alpha male. Apparently not everything is important when determining status as an alpha male, but he still seems proud enough to show it off. Thanks, I guess.
Valentine's day card.
Hiding.
What are you looking at?
Mandrill.
A very childish spider monkey.
Chimp. They all looked quite bored, like a bunch of old folks waiting for the bus.
Oh, it's only the number 35.
Ponies waiting absolutely motionlessly in a circle, like a carousel that was not switched on. Every few minutes, they would rotate one position.
Down below the sanctuary is Nant Llech, with the tallest waterfall in South Wales, Sgwd Henrhyd. It's quoted as 90 feet tall, which translates to 27.4 metres. It is randomly quoted as 27, 28 or 29 metres when translating - you choose what the actual height is. This is the cliff ledge path running behind the waterfall, making it one of several waterfalls in Waterfall Country that it is possible to walk behind (a possibility which I failed to notice last time I visited). The path does not continue on the near bank, however.
Just downstream from Sgwd Henrhyd is this 3 metre waterfall.
Smaller fall (1.5 metres max) below it.
Small inlet waterfall, nicknamed Needle Falls. Though only a small stream, it's actually quite tall; 6.5 metres.
Beautiful lighting in Graig Llech forest.
Nant Llech valley.
Melin-Llech, the remains of the old mill.
The waterfall by Melin-Llech, a little over 3 metres high.
Step in the stream.
Step with garlic.
The map also shows this waterfall near the end of the valley, but it's barely a cascade, and covered by a fallen tree. Not worthy.
A tree so green, in autumn, it would have brown leaves and green branches. Intended to confuse children.
Nant Llech ends where it joins the Tawe (unlike all other rivers in Waterfall Country, which flow into the Nedd/Neath river), the river that separates the Black Mountain and Fforest Fawr mountain ranges.
"Side" view of Fan Hir (761 metres), with Fan Brycheiniog (802 metres) behind it.
Sea King. Wrong lens. Again.