The Irish Ferry coming into Holyhead.
The Irish Ferry coming into Holyhead.
One of Many Common buzzards seen today.
Penrhosfeilw standing stones.
Canoeist enjoying a day on the sea.
South Stack lighthouse with its light flashing.
Oystercatchers roosting.
Red billed chough in paddocks near Ty Mawr.
Puffins at South Stack.
Puffins at South Stack.
Who said "If only all paths were like this?"
Another Irish Ferry heads for Holyhead harbour.
Our last view of the sea (Port Manarth) before heading away from the coast to the Holyhead Breakwater Country Park car park.
Walk stats:
Distace: 10.6 miles. Climb: 1403'.
Time: 6 hours 9 minutes. On the move walking average: 2.2 m.p.h. Overall walk average: 1.7 m.p.h.
Temperature:Max 17.2 Celsius. Minimum 15.2 Celsius.
Beafort Wind Force: 2 - 3. Generally a light breeze, but occasionally rising to a gentle breeze (max 10 m.p.h) at times as we crossed The Range.
Group: Martyn, Mike and Ed.
We set off later than usual as the driver for the day had only arrived from Germany late in the evening.
We arrived at the Holyhead Breakwater Country Park just before 11-00 and our first surprise came to find the cost of parking for over 4 hours had risen to £8-00. We will be looking for a different start point for our South Stak Walk in future.
this was a much better day for walking, not too hot and not too cold, although the north westerly breeze made it feel cool at times.
The walk today was great for birds and flowers, but the only mammal seen was a very large rabbit, so large e thought it might have been a Hare.
Birds seen or herd today included: Mallard, Herring gull, Lesser black back gull, Jackdaw, Goldfinch, Common blackbird, House sparrow, Common whitethroat, Barn swallow, Winter wren, Common buzzard, Great cormorant, Oystercatcher, Meadow pipit,Skylark, Willow warbler, Chiffchaff, Stonechat, Guillemot, Razorbill, Black billed magpie, Red billed chough and Puffin.
Flowers seen included: Tormentil, Stonecrop, Red campion, Foxglove, Thrift, Common spotted orchid, Bluebell, Buttercup, Dandelion, Lesser celendine and Sheep's bit.
Unusually we stopped for lunch onlt 4.5 miles into the walk, that meant that afterwards we still had most of the walkto complete. Lunch was taken almost as soon as we arrived on the coast, but the cool breeze meant we had to seek a sheltered spot.
As we walked up the road to South Stack, we had supurb views of Red billed Choug feeding in a field grazed by horses. We saw nine Red billed choughs, the most we had ever seen on our South Stack walksand this ws after seen them on The Range.
We spent much longer at South Stack than usual encouraged by the sighting of at least four Puffins.
This was a day when four Puffins trumped nine Red billed choghs for the bird spot of the day.
We arrived back at the cars, having had a great walk, legs and feet looking forward to a rest and all ready to head for the Albion in Conwy for liquid refreshment. Local brews and even locally made crisps (Jones o Gymri) were available. We didn't waste the opportunity to sample a few brews and at least one variety of crisps. All went down well!
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