The River Mellte

Mellte is the Welsh word for ‘Lightning’, and the river is believed to have got it’s name because of the speed at which the water rises and falls in response to rainfall.

The River Mellte is formed by the confluence of the rivers Afon Dringarth and the Afon Llia, it winds its way through a wooded, deep valley gorge before plunging underground for a quarter of a mile through Porth-yr-Ogof cave,  re-emerging at the Blue pool.  From here it continues to Pontneddfechan where it joins the river Nedd Fechan becoming the River Neath.

I am planning to re-visit this amazing river in the next few days, here are a few pictures I made a couple of years ago, when I took my DSLR camera in it’s Ikelite  underwater housing to photograph the river.  I’m so looking forward to taking another look at it….

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