out and about - 2013
15 June 2013 .............. Bull Bay to Porth Wen
The Anglesey coastal path goes right round the coast from Bull Bay to Porth Wen - well actually it goes right round to Wylfa head, and if you can do a shuttle it would be a good but fairly challenging walk to do it all in one go.
The Anglesey north coast has some fairly chunky rocks and cliffs and headlands - maybe it doesn`t have the drama of the Stacks, but it is a wild and isolated bit of coastline.
The path is exposed, is steep in places, can be muddy, and goes very close to cliff edges. Not suitable for children and dogs.
On this trip I did the section from Bull Bay round to Porth Wen - I am out of Bull Bay and up on the cliffs now, looking away along to the west - Dinas Gynfor is the furthest away headland, althought you can`t see all of it, and the island is Middle Mouse.
Heading along the cliff tops now, and looking back at a rather nice looking rock face - I don`t know if it is ever used for climbing, but it looks as if it could be.
Looking along the coastline, and a better idea of just how chunky the coastline is -
It isn`t that far until you get to Porth Wen, a significant and quite deep bay in the coastline. Just at the east end of the bay is the headland Trwynbychan, and it has some even more chunky rock formations.
From up on the cliffs above all these rocks and cliffs you can look across Porth Wen to the site of a former brickworks - here is a wider view showing the location of the brickworks below Graig Wen -
A closer view -
Nearer the back of the bay now, looking along the side of the bay towards Trwynbychan -
That was as far as I went on this trip, and I headed back to Bull Bay - not too far from Bull Bay now, and looking away to the east along the Anglesey north coast - the headland in the distance is Point Lynas, or Trwyn Eilian, and you can just make out the lighthouse on it.
Sticking away out into the sea Point Lynas has an interesting effect on the strong tidal currents that sweep round the Anglesey coast, and each corner of the headland forms its own tide race - and they can be surprisingly chunky even if the sea all round is quite flat.
The nearer island is East Mouse, and again, you can get some quite wild sea conditions round East Mouse just from the tidal current as the current is squeezed between East Mouse and the headland.
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