Distance: 30.5km (19 miles) Total Distance: 124 miles
I started walking at Amlwch harbour. I found the town itself quite depressing with lots of run down estates. I walked around the port but was foiled to keeping to the coast by a factory and had to cut quite a way inland.
Porth Leechog and a good bit of camera strap
The disused brick works at Porth Wen
After that the coastal path to Cames was excellent with spectacular bays both large and small. I stopped in Cames to stock up. The local shop owner told me he felt guilty because he had never been to Cardiff. I had a pint in the pub on the square and sat outside to watch the village life pass by.
I walked through the back end of town and through the fields to Wylfa power station. There were few people visiting the power station bearing in mind what had happened in Ukraine the previous week. The power station appeared amazingly peaceful but it was horrid to think what would happen if anything went wrong there. It also appeared amazingly accessible to terrorists.
The path led by a couple of deserted farms and through beautiful gardens and past a stream at Porth-y-Pystyll. The sun shone all day and it made Cemlyn Bay look very good. I walked on the seaward side of the causeway so as not to disturb the nesting birds on the freshwater side.
Porth-y-Pistyll
Cemlyn Bay
The public footpath disappeared at Camel Head whuch was a real shame as the sceenery was excellent. I eventually had enough of trespassing and having to climb over hedgerows every hundred yards which was not a good feeling, so after seeing the strange white concrete structures at Camel Head I cut inland.
The Skerries from near to Camel Head - a beuatiful bit of coastline but without full access rights.
It took a couple of miles walking along roads to get back to the coast. Looking down from Church Bay towards Holyhead was quite spectacular.
Church Bay was full of surfers packing up after a Bank Holiday Weekends sport. Even though there as an official path along the coast for the next bit though fields they were full of heffers but seemed to be harmless. I decided to finish at Borthwein and walked up the hill to Llanfaethlu.
Looking over to Holyhead from Pen-y-foel
Porth Trwyn- I was forced to walk inland again after this.
I had to walk for quite a while more to get a lift – it being Bank Holiday. I eventually got a lift from someone in a pick-up van whose business had gone bust in Stockport and now enjoyed his life on Anglesey doing part-time work in the restaurant in Borthwain.
I camped another night at Red Wharf Bay. I had picked up a Chinese take-away in Amlwch. After putting up the tent I had a shower and went down the pub and got talking to some of the locals. It was much emptier tonight as all the Bank-holidaymakers had gone home.
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