Sorry for not writing anything exciting for almost a week, but now I am "here", and ready to tell about our great weekend we had last week.
As the owner of the Great Orme Lighthouse advised, we visited Newborough Beach, at the south coast of Anglesey island, North-Wales. We remembered the lighthouse there from the Demi Moore movie, Halflight, but didn't remember that it was so beautiful.
As our weekend was longer because of the Bank Holiday on Monday, the traffic was huge on the highway. We stopped around half way and went into a restaurant, which was made in american road stop style. Imagine the restaurant from Pulp Fiction, which is robbed by HoneyBunny and Pumpkin, and now you know what sort of restaurant we were at. Drank only coffee, capuccino, chocolate shake, and off we went.
We got to Anglesey, then down to Newborough, where we found the beach in only a couple minutes. There was a toll to pay (3£), then we got to the car park. The car park was in the middle of a pine (!) forrest, then from there a short sandy passage led to the beach. It was amazing to see the combination of the sandy beach and the pine trees. I have never seen such a thing before, but this was the sentence I kept repeating to myself during the day.
We packed all our stuff from the car, and we got down to the beach. The water was incredible green-blue colour, the sky was beautiful, the shore was sandy and wonderful, it was quite windy tho. At the distance there was the island Llanddwyn, with the Lighthouse, so we were heading that way.
Some of us removed their shoes and walked in the sand/water, the weather was really good, not really "england" weather at all. The Island as they said was only accessable at any time but the highest tide, as at that time, the passage is flooded so the only access is by boats. Also there were huge rocks around, with sharp edges everywhere, like many sharp knives facing to the sky. These rocks were lava rocks, came from volcanic eruption many years ago, and became some sort of grotesk spots around.
Of course like children we had to climb them, and took a lot of photos. Imagine as you are standing on the top of one of them, looking around, and all you can see is beautiful sea, and beach. Incredible relaxing feeling.
We were then going on the passage to this island, of course stopped everywhere and made many pictures. We checked every part of this small island, as people say there are wild ponies around usually, of course when we were there, the ponies did not show up.
Crossing next to ruins of some kind of old building, and a HUGE christian cross we got to the lighthouse which took our breath away. It was even more beautiful than on pictures. Undescribeable feeling. It really was. You must be there to feel.
We spent some time with making photos, then we went down to the beach, wich was surrounded by lava rocks, and then we saw it. First I was not sure because I thought it was only a rock in the water which disappears as the waves are washing it over. But no, Mrs. Smith confirmed me, what I saw was a head of a seal. Then couple seconds later, it was obvious, from about 20 meters from us a seal was swimming in the sea. And seconds later, another one appeared a couple meters left from the first one. Saying "Swimming" would be exaggerating, because these seals were not swimming anywhere. They were floating in the water, and when they were not watching at us directly, they "lay" on their back, their head turned to the sky, with eyes closed, and they were just floating. How could I describe that ammount of peace we have felt there? You could almost touch it. Incredible to see seals in their normal wild life. Not in the zoo, not in video, in real life.
An English couple was next to us, and the guy had a binocular which he was watching the seals with. I have asked him if he was local. He said he was going there regularly, every 4 weeks. And he watches the seals every time. They live around those rocks, and as the guy said, the male, which was closer to us, is around 2m long. He also told us, that the wild ponies are usually on the island, but sometimes, they just go to different places, and can not be seen.
The guy (he was around 50 year old) told us that his part of the island is quite hidden, not many tourists find it, so we could consider ourselves lucky to do so. After a short chat, and many photos about the seals, we continued our journey, and went around the island, and got back to the beach. We were crossing by a huge Celtic Cross also, you can see on the pictures. It was low tide, when we got back to the beach, so we could see many gulls, and oystercathers near to the water dining :-). We met the english couple again, so I could use their binocular to see the birds better.
The sun was almost going down by that time, and we were totally exhausted, so slowly we got back to the car, and headed home. The motorways were good to drive, no traffic, and we got home in a good time. Of course nobody could really move after this hard day, and long walks.
This was the 5th lighthouse I have seen so far in the UK, and probably this place was the best. I never imagined there were places like this, and the owner of Great Orme Lighthouse was right, stunning place it was indeed.
We decided if we go to Scotland, we'll go for Whale Watching. Only cost around 40 quid, but probably you never forget it. I am falling in love again with UK, especially with Wales, and I am totally happy I am here and can experience all of these.
Of course, I'll never stop moaning and complaining, but that does not belong here right now. :-)
