Days 10 and 11

Two days to deal with the next section of the coastal for various reasons - adverse weather, FOURTEEN miles in total, minor car sickness, Angie and Mason 🦮 coming to join us for a couple of nights, and most importantly really must conserve energy for the final push from Trearddur up to Holyhead!!

Beep, beep, beep, red light alert - mechanic Alan opens bonnet of Sue's car, speaks sharply to whatever lies underneath, red light disappears (for now?????) Diagnosis - something's blocking your cooling system..........but the walk has to go on..........👾💁

On the road walking by 9am Monday morning (a first!!!) in blustery rainy weather, to cover some 6-7 miles from Aberffraw to the first Rhosneigr beach.

The old bridge at Aberffraw was our dropping off/starting point today in very wild, wet and blowy conditions. 

                           

Terrain today was mainly cliff paths, but there were occasional stretches of beach with pebbles and shingle.

Quite a few grassy headlands......

Triple hoods needed today on the higher ground, wind from the south but STRONG 🍃🎐!!

Not many folk around today.....

No swimmers or surfers or water sports of any kind, the waves were ferocious 😠

Plenty of  'Don't look down!!' moments if you're not great with heights (too much like the Cemaes stretch last Monday for me 😓😓)

And the ubiquitous mud of course, but at least some kind person had put down wooden slats to make it passable/more entertaining!?!?

Really interesting tumulus mound along the cliff path - a mere 4500 years old, containing artwork of a type found in Ireland.  Proof that the Irish tried to lay claim to Anglesey in the dim and distant.

And a brick construction, one of many found around the coast of Anglesey - why???

Three intrepid ladies (no spring chickens!) and me - walking the same stretch as us but in the opposite direction.  Only taken them 3 years to do the coastal path........3 separate visits and 40 miles or so each time spread over a week.  Now that sounds like a good plan👍 

Windswept but glad to be a the end of a 6 mile morning walk 😂

Glenise in Lioness Queen mode on a boulder on the beach at Rhosneigr, waiting for buddy Mason 💑 and Guide Dog Owner Angie to arrive Monday late afternoon. 

And they came! Mason and Angie with Glenise and Sue being guided onto a safe area of beach to have a good run.

 

It's so much better when you've got the beach at Rhosneigr to yourselves 💓  BTW, Angie, that's a BIG rucksack......??

Dark and forbidding as these boulders look, we managed to get Angie from one side to another without injury or loss of decorum.  The dogs skipped across as 4-legged creatures do, our crossing wasn't quite so pacey or agile 😌

Sue kept us all well away from the water's edge in case those waves got the better of us, but Mason decided he'd trot over and see how another dog was getting on in any case! 

Rhosneigr was getting closer - lunch and loo pitstop imminent!

Sue on the water's edge, having nostalgic thoughts about times lived here when the children were younger 😉🤔

We did wonder why the surfers weren't out today 😊

Angie - what have you got in that rucksack?!?

Looking out to sea from a little footbridge to make crossing the channel much easier!

The sky says it all about today's weather - wet and windy.

What's the huddle about?  We just want to get on with playing 🐶🐕

Brightly painted houses add to the cheerful charm of Rhosneigr.

Mason and mummy Sue chilling after today's beach walks 💓

 We all had a lovely time walking the beaches at Rhosneigr, but the cliffs beckon again tomorrow ...........