Tuesday June 3rd 2014 - Part 1 - Mooching round Moelfre

Monday had been another cloudy day and as it was also my birthday I'd treated it as one of my chill-out days. The morning had been spent in and around the tent and I'd got chatting to the couple in the camper van who were in the process of packing up. They had two lovely little Jack Russell dogs, Ted and Katy, and a very placid cat called Guinness, and being the sucker I am for cats and small dogs I just had to take a couple of photos of all three of them before they left the site.

In the afternoon I'd taken Sophie and Sugar for a walk along the path which skirts the cliff at the bottom of the site, only going about a mile from the site and just as far as the small headland with the abandoned partially built cottage, although when I got there I was quite surprised to find that it was no longer abandoned. The rectangular four-walled shell which had stood open to the elements for many many years had finally found someone to love it and it now sported an extension at one end and a smart grey-tiled roof. Looking at the deep tyre tracks in the ground and the mini digger parked at the side it was obvious that the work was recent - maybe next time I go that way it will all have been completed and the cottage will finally have residents.

The evening had been spent watching tv and indulging in a couple of glasses of cherry Lambrini and the miniature cake supplied by my son and daughter-in-law, plus a large handful of chocolates from the box given to me by another family member. Okay, so I pigged out a bit, but having a birthday is as good an excuse as any to do it.

So Tuesday morning arrived and with it came the sunshine, meaning that this would be one of my days out. While walking the dogs the previous day I'd noticed an orange object in the distance across the water and a large crane causing a blot on the landscape at Moelfre, so after a chill-out morning, and curious to know what was going on, I loaded Sophie and Sugar in the van and drove over there. It turned out to be the construction of a new lifeboat station; the old building had been demolished to make way for the new one and the orange object was the lifeboat anchored just offshore.

Having satisfied my curiosity I walked along the cliff path to the end and back, which meant making a detour because of the building works, then walked back through the village, stopping to take a few photos here and there. Moelfre is such a small place that it's impossible not to repeat any photos already taken, but it's so pretty that on such a nice sunny day it was worth taking a few more.

Back at the van I gave the dogs a much needed drink then set off on the second part of my afternoon - a visit to one of the very few places on the island where I had not yet been. To be honest it was a place I'd never really thought about going to but I was following the photography book and wanted to get my own version of the two photos in there - it would be interesting to see if I could find the exact locations for both.