Wales Coast Path 2024

  The logistics are getting more complicated now, as we walk in the more remote corner of Anglesey with less close contact with public transport. As a result, today's walk was done with two cars. It was a straightforward walk, all the better for being so remote. It's not as strenuous as that bit between Amlwch and Cemaes, but this stretch includes proper clifftop walks with a steep drop below: it's not for the faint-hearted, or anybody with small children.  It also marked another turning point in the whole path. We left the north coast of the island, so after a pronounced left turn, bade farewell to the Skerries and the 'mice', and opened up a new vista towards Ynys Cybi - Holy Island. Byond that, we could see Eryri - Snowdonia again and the hills down Llyn, maybe even Bardsey. Remote means more varied vegetation: we had wild carrot, sheep's bit scabious as well as the common varieties, and it seemed everything was in flower. Soon after we started at Cemlyn, san...

This was to be a circular walk, dictated more by the logistics of our next leg than by anything else. So we parked in Cemaes and returned there. At Cemaes we had coffee at the Bell before setting off. We soon encountered a path diversion, but we expected it because we had checked beforehand here .  It wasn't a long diversion: it looked like wave action had been undermining a soft path on top of a rocky cliff. We had less haze over the sea than on our earlier walks along the north coast of Anglesey. At last we managed to see the Isle of Man, which on a good day like this is not just a spot but a succession of mountain peaks. It doesn't photograph well. Once we saw the Wylfa power station (now closed, a replacement still a possibility) we couldn't unsee it, as it rather dominates this walk, and probably the next as well. Fortunately, we had other landmarks such as the Skerries on the horizon, and we have now seen all three 'mice': this islands of Maen y Bugail (West ...

  We parked at Cemaes and took the bus to Amlwch, the short walk to Amlwch Port adding to our mileage total. We were hoping to stop at Skye's Creperie (no link found), having been favourably impressed last time, but it was closed for just one day for some electrical work, so we set off. Fairly immediately, we found a discrepancy between our guide book and the walk on the ground. The guide book, and also my the Ordnance Survey map, suggest that there is a cul-de-sac diversion along the port side, but you would have to turn back and continue the path across the playing field. It wasn't signposted that way at all, but nevertheless we followed the guide book version, still a path, but not signposted as the Coast Path. After a while, the signed coast path rejoined this route. It looks as though the path management have now found a way through from that cul-de-sec to join the main route of the path westwards, and our guide book, published only in 2024, is now out of date. There was r...

We left the car at Porth Amlwch, took the 62 bus back to City Dulas and started where we had left off last time. It has been dry weather but the side of the beach  at Traeth Dulas was wet underfoot, which we realised was because high equinoctial tides here had this week lapped over where we were were walking - although it did seem we could have got through even at high tide. We came across a an official sign, Path Modification Order, and worried a bit that this might be going to divert us - but it was in fact adding a short stretch of  footpath that we are about to take to the definitive right of way map (Llaneilian No. 59). The path leaves the coast to track around the lands of Plas Dulas. We've seen and heard a lot of pheasants along the Anglesey coast, but here we observed some sort of mating ritual. The photo does not do justice to it. As far as Porth Eilian, we were reprising a walk we did 14 years ago , and like that time we encountered very few people along the way...