City Dulas to Porth Amlwch (8 miles)

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. It is splendidly remote, far even from the caravan parks common elsewhere along this coast. Today we were blessed with very clear weather, and looking back we could see most of Eryri, and beyond the Great Orme  to the Clwydian hills. But as we approached, then passed, Trwyn Eilian/Point Lynas, we left that view behind as we turned the corner of the island, looking northwards instead over the expanse of the Irish Sea.

We had our picnic at Porth Eilian at high tide before continuing westwards. We visited Ffynnon Eilian, which is on the path. We reflected that the whole day's walk virtually beat the bounds of the parish granted by Caswallon Llaw Hir to St. Eilian himself, from Dulas, past his church and well, to Llam Carw.








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