Ceffyl Dŵr

I read that White Beach near Penmon on Anglesey is named so, simply because of its white rocky beach. Its Welsh name it seems is Traeth Gywn - but checking google translate that means white beach also. I was hoping for something much more poetic and mystical.

The protected reserve headlands and beach here are famed for their wild, free-spirited and roaming ‘Carneddau’ mountain ponies. Tough little nuts, they are used on Anglesey to manage the grass and scrub on the islands many nature reserves and dunes.

The beautifully secluded Traeth Gywn is also known for its very safe deep-water swimming - but not today with the combination of such an imminent super high spring tide plus the strong onshore wind. Here is also somewhere I have fished a lot for summer mackerel from the shelving cliffs over the years.

20 years ago when Jay was quite young, we would often BBQ mackerel here on the beach afterwards - whilst she would be tasked with catching as many small shrimp as she could from the fresh rockpools. She loved the responsibility and we would fry these little suckers on the beach in chilli oil. So small and tender you could eat them shell-and-all like sweet & spicy little peanuts.

Today though myself and MrsB were reminiscing here whilst on a short walk. As we left, I perched another balanced stone stack offering to my own mythical white water horses.