04/09/2026
Caban Coch. 2009.
From the archives from my first visit to the Elan Valley. Chris Samuel and .it.have.dinosaurs.in needed a lift across Wales to get to an un-advertised festival that sounded suspiciously like an o**y at a cult, and I love giving people lifts to places, so we went, on the condition that I got to look at some dams (as it was my birthday).
It had been raining for weeks and the force of the water coming over the top at Caban Coch is really hard to describe, it was hard to stand up at the bottom. I've been back many times since and have never seen it even close to this. It's always beautiful, and overwhelming in scale, but I do long to experience the majesty of the falls again.