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16 September 2014 ............ Trefor - part 1
With the good weather continuing, I took the opportunity to head down the Lleyn Peninsula to Trefor, which is at the northeast end of a fairly dramatic bit of the Lleyn Peninsula coastline.
First of all here are a few pictures of the beach and coastline around Trefor - it has some fabulous backdrops, being sandwiched between the mountains and the sea.
This is a view of the beach taken from the pier, with Yr Eifl in the background - this would be about an hour into the flood tide.
Just to the west of this beach, there is a headland called I think Morfa - this is taken from Morfa, looking east back towards the pier, and I think - but I am not sure - that it is Bwlch Mawr and Gyrn Goch in the background.
Looking in the other direction - and a foretaste of the coastline that is to come.
Afloat now, and under the pier - I am not sure how much longer that the pier is going to last, it is in a pretty bad way - in places there are some shiney new stainless bolts trying to hold more wood onto completely rotten wood.
The Morfa coastline has some quite dramatic cliffs, with the headland Trwyn y Tâl as part of them -
Quite soon - the first cave - it is quite a deep one, but the sea was a bit restless inside the cave, so I didn`t get too far in.
A passageway round the back of some rocks -
One of the curious things is that there are several of these “eyebrow” caves along these cliffs - they would be covered at high tide.
Past the outlying rock, and more cliffs to come.
Another odd feature of these cliffs is the several small beaches in front of small caves - the water is so clear that even in the picture you can see the stones continuing on down away from the beach.
And now an “eyebrow” arch - I managed to get through it by lying right back on the back deck.
Just after the arch, the coastline opens up a bit, with quite a significant stoney beach, and in the first picture you can see the other side of the arch - it is the very low opening just off from the beach.
The far end of the beach, with some good stacks just offshore -
Past the stacks, and you begin to see further along the coast to the next headland, Trwyn y Gorlech.
However Trwyn y Tâl still has some more cliffs and features before you start thinking about the next headland - another cave and beach.
And another one -
And another one -
Near the end of Trwyn y Tâl now, and quite a dramatic view along a long stoney beach that links Trwyn y Tâl and Trwyn y Gorlech.
Close to Trwyn y Gorlech now, and looking back along the beach towards Morfa and Trwyn y Tâl -
From a distance, Trwyn y Gorlech looks so dramatic, but sea kayaking close up along its base, it doesn`t really look all that impressive, you lose all sense of the size of the drop down to the sea.
A lone cormorant keeps an eye on me as I pass - isn`t it odd how cormorants never look straight at you - they turn their heads to one side and look at you with one eye, then whip their head round by 180 degrees, and look at you with the other eye.
Once past Trwyn y Gorlech, there is another long beach - Porth y Nant - that links along to the next headland, Penrhyn Glas.
The beach is mostly stoney, there are however a few odd patches of sand, so I took the opportunity to land for a tea break.
And a swim - skinny dipping of course, its the only way to go !
As I was getting packed up again, a couple of seals came cruising by, to see what I was up to - actually I don`t think I was the main attraction - judging by their antics, they were far more interested in each other.
The beach Porth y Nant along to Penrhyn Glas is a bit more interesting than the last one - the story continues in the next web page.
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