A 10 minute paddle, and a lot of sight-seeing
Picking up Julian from Macclesfield, and heading West early on Saturday morning, we headed away from Angelesy as it was the symposium and would be busy busy.
I've never been on the Llyn before, and really wanted to paddle here and explore a bit for the future.
We headed to the town of Llanbedrog with the plan to paddle on to St Tudwals Islands
It was the 1st trip for my new van aswell. We arrived at Llanbedrog National Trust car park, it would be a carry down some steep steps, and then on down to the beach down the slip-road. Not before we had the worlds most expensive sandwich in the cafe though.
Idylic! Flat sea, hardly any wind and lovely crystal clear water.
Leaving the beach was a 'gorrilla knuckles' job!
The idea was to paddle around Trwyn Llanbedrog, and head straight to Penrhyn Du about 4 Km
After getting around the head, it was a very different world! The wind was horrific, you know the sort, relentless, a head-wind. The sea wasn't too bad, but 4 kilometres of this would drive me nuts. Then as we started to get toward Abersoch, it started, a constant stream of bloody jet-skis, all way too close for my liking, and some not looking where they were going either. In fact as I write this, we have just had an incedent there involving a kayak and a jet-ski.
We landed on the steep pebbly beach to weigh up the situation. we decided to call it a day, an head back. No point risking life and limb in a head wind.
We had a little play in some small over-falls off the point. Having not been in my boat since Scotland, it felt good to do some skills practice.
Julian produced a tiny fishing rod, and sat a while, with nothing biting, we eventually headed back to the beach
Julian had been here not long ago with his family, and this campsite was a beauty, flat, short grass, and mint condition facilities. Even had Wifi, and I got reception on my phone. We soon lowered the tone though with a makeshift washing line!
We headed to the pub down the road, and had a meal and a few beers.
Julian had slept in his tent, and I had decided to try the back of the van -awesome nights sleep. We awoke to a disapointing wind though. So after a fry-up on the stove, and a few coffes. We did some sight-seeing, looking for future paddles. Had to go and check out the Ty Coch Inn which was extremely busy.
Bit of a disapointment paddling wise, but a good weekend away, and with some good launch sites marked, we will return soon.
Solid red line is our short trip, the pink dashes show the intended route out. Maybe next time?
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