South Stack
South Stack is a small island located just off the coast of Holy Island, Anglesey. It’s topped by a lighthouse and connected to Holy Island by a bridge. When we paddled through on this occasion, we...
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Our evening paddle around ‘The Stacks’ of Anglesey’s Holy Island had taken us past the tide race of Penryhn Mawr and the lighthouse of South Stack. The final highlight was North Stack; this is a small...
View ArticleHolyhead Bay
After our unforgettable evening paddle around the Stacks of Holy Island, we camped near Holyhead; we arrived pretty late and overslept the following morning. So, the paddle along the long harbour...
View ArticleThe Skerries
The plan was for an evening jaunt around Carmel Head and along the north coast of Anglesey, utilising the extremely strong local tides. We knew that several miles offshore of Carmel Head were The...
View ArticlePorth Wen
[Click on the photomontage to see the full detail] The sun was low in the sky as we left The Skerries and picked up the tide which we hoped would carry us along Anglesey’s north coast. We had no idea...
View ArticlePoint Lynas
Point Lynas is effectively the top right corner of the island of Anglesey. Having launched early from Porth Wen into Anglesey’s raging tide flows, it was no time as all before we were being carried...
View ArticlePuffin Island
We rode the tide, far offshore, down the whole east coast of Anglesey. This was a bit dull, to be honest; we really must go back and explore that coast properly. However, we hit land again at Puffin...
View ArticleBack to Beaumaris
Our paddle around Anglesey had to come to an end eventually…we slogged up the Menai Strait tide flow to Beaumaris, which we’d departed four days before. Dodging the dozens of crab lines dangling below...
View ArticleBarclodiad y Gawres
Whilst the Egyptians were building their pyramids, the Neolithic folk of Anglesey were erecting burial mounds and chambered tombs all over the island. On the coast at Barclodiad y Gawres, a huge mound...
View ArticleHolyhead Mountain
It’s a mountain. It’s near Holyhead. Filed under: Anglesey, Islands, Tide races, Walking
View ArticleLeaving Anglesey
After paddling around Anglesey, our last few days on the island were spent doing day paddles, and assorted tourism. I refused to leave the island until I’d made a pilgrimage to the place above, hence...
View ArticleBritish Seals 11 – Humans and seals
Common seal, Poole Harbour Inevitably, the largest threat to seals comes from humans. Humans have hunted and eaten them since prehistory, as evidenced by bones (mostly from greys) in Mesolithic...
View ArticleYnys Môn
The latest edition of Canoe Kayak UK magazine includes a feature by myself on our fantastic summer pootle around the Isle of Anglesey. Hope it’s of interest… Filed under: Anglesey, Islands, Kayaking,...
View ArticleYnys Môn
The following article was published some while back in the rather splendid publication Canoe Kayak UK… Ynys Môn An overdue pootle around the island of Anglesey This trip was meant to have happened...
View ArticleLighthouses 2/5 – Trinity House and Northern Lights
Skerries Lighthouse, offshore of the Isle of Anglesey Trinity House and Northern Lights Our current system of navigation marks and lighthouses originated in 1514, when Henry VIII granted a charter to...
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