A Visit to Anglesey

Hi there everyone 😀

On the Wednesday of our first week in North Wales this year the weather forecast was for sunshine all the way.

Low tide at Penmon Point was also at a very sensible time for us … 1.10pm. As we both really wanted to be able to walk out to the lighthouse … which is only possible at low tide … a visit to Anglesey was definitely on the cards.

We were up and out pretty early for us so, after a very quick and unfruitful visit to Dunelm in Bangor, we made our way across the Menai and along the coast to Beaumaris.

The plan was to have a bit of a wander, maybe some lunch and then head on to Penman in time for low tide.

It was a glorious day and I had Martin stop on the way in so I could capture some photos of the brightly coloured houses …

… and the view across the Strait …

We were soon parked up and heading for the pier in the warm sunshine. It was lovely … but then Beaumaris always is … especially when it’s nice and quiet and the weather is just right …

The sun wasn’t in the best position for photos along the pier and it was quite hazy over the mountains but it was still pretty stunning …

By the time we’d finished on the pier we were both ready for a comfort break and lunch so managed to get lucky and find a table in Beau’s … a lovely quirky and cosy tea room in the High Street …

We both opted for the Welsh Rarebit …

… before sharing a piece of the most tasty Battenberg cake ever …

There was just time for a quick mooch round a few of our favourite shops before heading off to Penmon to catch the low tide …

We parked up and, whilst you can’t actually see how low the tide is from the car park … it was looking promising … we’d never seen as much of the red bouy or Puffin Island as exposed before …

This is the path that takes you down to the lighthouse and we were excited to see what we would find …

The tide was certainly the lowest we’d seen it …

… it wasn’t quite low enough to actually get down to the lighthouse … not without a very good pair of waders anyway. Whilst we had been really hoping to get closer it was impossible to be disappointed … it was still beautiful …

Whilst we are not experts at understanding the tides … low tide on this visit was 2.7m. Later in the week it did get to -0.4m. We can only hope that means that it does get lower and next time we will leave it a couple of days and hopefully catch a low, low tide …

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