Framedlight

We lunched late on a rather revolting sandwich bought from a Coop on Anglesey and, as the light was beginning to glow, drove back to the west side of the island and a beach at Borth Wen which has a sandy and rocky shore in the foreground and a building looking a bit like a lifeboat station. I took some short and long exposure shots here. We finished the day at Rhosneigr, which I had not realised was a surfing beach. The waves were still up here but longer exposures suited the soft sunset more.

Having sated ourselves on the waves at Pen-y-Porth we moved round to South Stack, where we hoped to see rough seas breaking round the lighthouse. However this area appears to be more sheltered and we were disappointed. One strange phenomenom was that the spray, we initially thought was sea spray, was in fact water cascading from the top of the cliff being blown back over the path in the strong gusts. The road down to the lighthouse was flooded too deep even for the Landrover to contemplate the journey so we had to walk down on the top of a low wall. Hettie lay and splashed about in the flood and then demonstrated her happiness by singing to us!

Overnight the rain poured and the wind blew. On the morning of the 30th December it looked as if the old year was going out with a bang. The wind was still growling and the coast seemed a good place to visit. We drove over to Anglesey through flooded roads, first stopping at Betws Garmon to see how the stream was coping with the extra load. From there we went over the Menai straits and across the flat boring hinterland of Anglesey before turning off to look at the west coast. In a small cove called Porth-y-Post we discovered the force of the Atlantic playing out, not as violently as it would do later in the week, but at least it was safe to watch. The first two pictures are of Betws and the rest of Porth-y-Post, these taken at first with a 70mm lens and then with a 200mm lens.