Category Archives: Local Interest

If you wander down to the very tip of the Llŷn Peninsula, you will discover Bardsey Island just 2-miles off the coast. There are 12-properties on the island and nine of them are holiday cottages. There is no electricity. The island is owned by the Bardsey Island Trust and is a National Nature Reserve, aContinue reading “Ynys Enlli”

Here’s a photo taken from an aeroplane on Wednesday this week as it flew along the North Wales Coast. From Colwyn Bay to the Llandudno isthmus sticking well out into the sea, the Conwy Estuary and cloud topped Snowdonia, the Menai Strait and Anglesey.

The copper beech tree, brought down by very high winds, is split into more manageable pieces.

Sometimes you see something in the countryside and you are just left wondering “Why?”

View up the Menai Strait to the Great Orme and Llandudno from Bangor Pier

Here’s a working barge on its way up the Conwy Estuary with its legs in the air. They’ll get a bit wet though when they arrive at their working location.

Amazing how a river can look like the brightest thing in the landscape on a dark day in the middle of winter. Here the River Conwy looks positively charged with electricity. No special effects needed.

There were fireworks in Llandudno last night. If there is no photo with this post this morning, then your webmaster was too tired to upload any after getting home last night. Please be patient and watch out for photos being added here later (maybe after the bins have been emptied).