A lighthouse near Anglesey Puffin Island

During your stay you must wonder what the island of Anglesey lighthouse is worth a closer look. If you are a boat or just the path from the country?

Are you interested in this position for the Anglesey lighthouse, sea views, wildlife, or perhaps its rich maritime history?

Trwyn you (or Penmon Point) Lighthouse is located on the eastern tip of Anglesey is. There is a fixed point of reference, painted in black and white bands and is in sound between Puffin> Iceland and Penmon Point on Anglesey "mainland".

Trwyn You put into operation in 1838 and at a height of 29 meters, its light has a range of 12 miles. Compared to the Skerries, Anglesey is another lighthouse on the northwestern coast Trwyn is a short walk from the beach.

Standing on the beach can be reached almost Penmon you feel out and touch the light, but the water running through the very loud sound.

Watching from a passing yacht in light windsshows the viewer how strong the tidal flow around Penmon Point.

This position Anglesey lighthouse is one of the hottest of Anglesey as a microcosm is considered benign by flows of special product from the main Gulf Stream. Training is being protected from prevailing south-westerly and westerly winds and waves.

This automated Trinity House is located near Faro Puffin Iceland, an uninhabited island off the east coast private, which is a special protection given the large colony of cormorants, along with other birds such as guillemots and kittiwakes.

As its name it is not surprising that there is a colony breeding puffins on the island. You have here a few years due to an infestation of rats. This problem seems to have been treated, and seem to be back.

Puffin Island is also known as San Priestholm Seiriol began after the monastic community ofIsland> Point and Penmon. Many believe that St. Seiriol is buried on the island, with other dignitaries.

By boat you can sail to the northern coast, near Amlwch, Anglesey another lighthouse at Point Lynas and head move to the coast in southeast Dulas Bay and Moelfre past.

We will Llanddona straight beach, and then approach Penmon Lighthouse Point and Puffin Iceland. To the east you can see the impressive head of Orme Llandudno, while onTo the south lies the magnificent Snowdon field.

When you land, take a car or rent a bike and head for the village Penmon Beaumaris. After passing Penmon Priory, site of the Augustinian monastery, take the toll road for about a mile and a quarter.

Here you see some old pilot house above the beach, and a coast guard station to see. The beach is well worth a visit on foot. With good binoculars you can build the birds nest on the rocks and their poweryoung people.

It 'was at this point again in August 1831, the Rothsay Castle, 13 hours after a shift from the Mersey in storm conditions, proposed a series of sand banks, as a Dutchman, and finally sank known bank .

Among the 150 passengers only 20 survived, picked up by the Beaumaris lifeboat. When this incident occurred, there was Penmon Lighthouse Point.

Today we can be thankful for the advances in technology that minimize these tragedies, and the existence of thisAnglesey lighthouse.