and I'm in the Arans in Eryri

doing my usual hiking

waterfall hunting

camping thing

oh my god this is heaven!

it's the second day of my trip

and I've walked for miles

trying to find somewhere to pitch for night 2

the waterfall valley that I'd planned to stay in

had nowhere to pitch a tent

so after miles of walking

and slogging up slopes

fate has lead me up on to this unassuming hill

I was already tired from not sleeping well the previous night

'n I intended to go to bed early

but by 10pm I'd noticed something strange

there was a tiny crescent moon

yet my surroundings were lit up

as if I were sitting under a bright full moon

it was only later on, around 11:30

just as I was about to go to bed

that I got out of my tent to look around, and..

guys something really weird is happening

the sky is pink & green

like shafts of pink & green light

and it's kinda crazy!

I don't know if it's the northern lights?

or something else

I'm assuming it must be the northern lights

over north Wales

and I've seen the northern lights once in Iceland

and they were nothing like this

♩♫ magical plunky music ♬♪

I've never seen anything like this in my life

even in photos

it's completely nuts and erm

honestly it's making me feel a little bit nervy

cuz it just seems so bizarre

so weird, its so, so beautiful

so beautiful

what's going on?

has there been a solar flare?

this just feels like a mad, once-in-a-lifetime experience

and I don't really know what to make of it

its..

it's mad, I wish I had someone to talk to about it

but I'm here by myself, I've got no reception

it's so weird

it's so weird as well

not to be able to have contact with anyone

to find out

if some sort of event's happened

some sort of freak

weather incident or

solar incident

I just don't know

dunno what's going on

what a night

I just can't believe it

*PLB message notification*

hello?

*zipper*

I am knackered!

I had to look at my footage this morning

to check that I wasn't going mad

and I didn't sort of dream

all the stuff that went down last night

but it looks like it was real

I've not really slept because

it was just so crazy

and erm

I didn't know what was going on

right lemme get dressed

and I'll come back in a minute

Hey Guys!

so I stayed up watching that

until gone 3 in the morning last night

and then it did seem to fade away

and I tried to get some sleep but

I just couldn't sleep last night

I did message Ash and ask him

via my garmin

if something had happened with the sun

and he got back to me this morning and said

what did he say

so he said 'yes, apparently a few eruptions

on the sun spewed out solar material'

I really didn't know what to make of it last night

I didn't know if a portal had opened above my tent

to another dimension

or if I was gonna get abducted by aliens

and it's kinda mad thinking that

all that journeying about yesterday

not being able to find a camp spot

and fate leading me here

to this precise spot

where I had these open views of the sky

and could just sit and watch it all go down

it was just such a surreal experience

never in a million years

did I think on this trip

anything like that would happen

on this little hill

so thank you for sharing this with me

this has been one of the weirdest

strangest and most beautiful nights of my life

and I'm so glad to share it with you guys

I was in a state of disbelief

for a few days after this event

thank you camping place!

thank you sky!

I can't really put into words my gratitude

at being present for this majestic

once-in-a-lifetime occurrence

as I watched my footage of this event a few days later

it made me cry

it feels so profound to me

the vastness of the human experience

the burden that we carry

as emotional, sentient beings

to feel

to care

sometimes too much

to live through fear, trauma, pain and loss

but also to love and be loved

hey beautiful!

to achieve things, both big and small

to feel excitement and wonder

to be able to experience and appreciate

unspeakable beauty

what a convoluted, messy

and wonderful thing it is to be alive

Hi Landy!