Great Orme Summit Complex. Nice cafe in there.
Great Orme, Llandudno And Conwy 24th June 2012.
The idea was to go from the summit by the Great Orme Tram down to Llandudno and then come back by cable car but when I arrived in Llandudno I found that due to high winds the cable car system was not operating so I had to come back by tram.
Great Orme Summit Complex. Nice cafe in there.
View from the front of the tram looking down to Llandudno.
Another view looking towards Llandudno.
Looks like there's been some quarrying here in the past.
Another view from the tram.
A cable tram
with halfway station in the background.
Another view. Halfway station is the round roofed building on the far left of the picture.
You have to get off the tram and walk to the other end of the station and board this tram which takes you down to Llandudno.
Halfway station also houses the cable winding machinery for the trams.
Descending the steep incline on the outskirts of Llandudno.
The steep incline with Llandudno down below.
View taken from inside the tram.
Looking back to Llandudno tram station.
The seafront.
The Grand Hotel on the left of the seafront.
The view from part of the seafront looking towards Great Orme.
Llandudno Pier taken as I made my way up to the cable car
station.
Great Orme.
Great Orme with the Marine Drive toll road on the centre right of the picture.
Another view of the pier.
Great Orme lower cable car station which sadly was not operating because it was just too windy.
The view of Llandudno from near the lower cable car station.
This view is from the Great Orme tram taking me back up to the summit complex.
Great Orme summit complex from the tram station.
Tram rails and cables.
A close up showing the cable guides.
Another view showing the cable guides and rollers.
Great Orme Tram Station with a tram waiting inside.
Another view showing the cable guide rollers.
Having left Great Orme, I drove to Conwy. This is two of Conwy Castle's towers taken from the car park.
View of part of Conwy taken from the entrance ramp of Conwy Castle.
Conwy Castle entrance.
Another view from the entrance ramp.
Conwy Castle entrance.
An arborial stare from this fellow
just inside the castle.
A view from the upper walkway inside the castle.
View looking North.
A bird of the feathered variety.
Conwy Castle.
The railway emerging from the bridge over the River Conwy.
The River Conwy.
Another view of part of the castle from the upper walkway.
And another view. Note the part submerged boat in the bottom right of the picture.
Left is the Conwy road bridge carrying the A547( it used to carry the
A55 until the Conwy Road tunnel was opened in 1991). In the middle is
Thomas Telford's suspension bridge opened in 1826. The railway bridges
on the right were built by Robert Stephenson and opened in 1849. Since
fire destroyed the Britannia Bridge over the Menai Straites in 1970,
this is the only surviving example of this type of Stephensons bridge
construction left.
Another view.
A closer view.
Another view of the Afon Conwy from the castle.
A view of Conwy showing part of the old town walls.
Looking towards the castle entrance.
A view from Conwy Castle across the river to Great Orme.
Another view of Conwy showing the town walls.
And another.
The new, the old and the not quite so old.
Pirates in the harbour?
Leaving the castle.
Castle from Conwy.
Conwy Castle.
Camera: Konica Minolta Dynax 5D.
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