I left home this morning under a brilliant blue sky, but soon drove into a thick mist that was flowing out of the Conwy Valley and enveloping Llandudno.

I was running an introduction to the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award and during my morning presentation, we got a few glimpses of sunshine, although the mists stayed low in the valley below us.

In the afternoon, I took my group for a short walk up a nearby hill to see if we could get above the clouds.

We came very, tantalizingly close to getting high enough, but our summit was just in the mist still.

Every now and then, we got a gap, but could have done with being another 10 or 20m higher to be able to look out across the tops of the clouds.

I texted some of the other teams who were out – one group on nearby Conwy Mountain had the best of it – they could see the summit of the Great Orme like an island in a sea of clouds.

The low sun and intermittent mists made for some very atmospheric conditions.

We continued with our navigation training, helped by the fact that even now and then visibility was dramatically reduced.

Water droplets stuck to our eye brows, hair, clothes and everything around.

As we descended to the fields, the mist got even thicker. It was a real ‘pea-souper’ with visibility down to just over 50m.

It’s not often we have to navigate across fields on a compass bearing to find the gate out! Super training conditions! It also had the benefit of keeping the group all together as there was a genuine chance of getting lost if we split up!

Meanwhile, another group sent the view from the Orme Summit, with the warm sunshine reflecting off the sea! What a stunner of a day!