out and about - 2017
08 September 2017 .............. Penrhyn Mawr peninsula
It was completely unplanned, but I ended up with my bike on the Penrhyn Mawr peninsula - now the peninsula itself is rather flat and uninteresing, just acres of heather and low gorse.
However it has a super coastline, and as it sticks out to the west of Anglesey. it has a smashing outlook - and a classic view across to South Stack -
Further round to the right, and looking into Abraham`s Bosom, with Holyhead mountain as the backdrop -
Some of the cliffs along the coastline -
Looking down into a very deep cave, which is now high and dry well above the high tide level -
Looking out across the rocky islands that form part of the area of the tide race that sea kayakers refer to as Penrhyn Mawr - with the backdrop of the Lleyn Peninsula quite clear, though a bit faint.
There is no sign of any tide races in this picture, because it was an ebb tide, and the tide races only form in a flood tide - you still get a significant current during an ebb tide, but not the meaty tide races.
Round the coast a bit, and a good view across to Rhoscolyn, with the Nantlle Ridge as the backdrop this time.
All the time I was on the peninsula, I could see a huge dark storm out to sea, and it was slowly approaching Anglesey - if I didn`t find some shelter before it arrived, I was going to get very, very, wet.
Well there isn`t any shelter anywhere around that whole area, so I reckoned it was time to head away and go back to Treaddur Bay where my van was parked, so I headed off.
In the event, the storm didn`t ever get to the north end of Anglesey, it might have just caught the southwest corner of Anglesey, I don`t know, but I can guarantee that the Lleyn Peninsula got very wet.
But in passing down the coast it provided some good cloud formations looking out to sea from Treaddur Bay -
It eventually passed away and lost its visual impact, but just as I was leaving, the next storm was clearly on it way.
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