A good wind forecast giving us somewhere between a run and a broad reach will hopefully make for a pleasant journey. With high tide around 4am this morning we had to get out of the marina by 5.45 am latest, before the marina gate closed. Yawn! another early start. Still it meant we would be at our destination by early afternoon.
First delay was the arrival of the ‘Ben my Chree’ passenger ferry, & Port control asking us to wait and stay clear.
Ok fair enough, wouldn’t want to mess with that!
Once on our way, we left Douglas in the rain and headed south. After the strong winds of the last couple of days the sea state was quite rough, despite there being only moderate winds. There was only us for the first 6 hours but it became busy with ferries from Liverpool, criss crossing our path as we neared the north coast of wales
Moelfre could be picked out from the coastline by the roof of the RNLI Station and happily on arrival the sea was flat and free of swell. We anchored up in 7 metres of water at exactly HW Moelfre, giving us 2.5 metres when the tide went out, and thats on neaps.
Going ashore we watched the lifeboat launch and speed off. We wandered around the village and coast path with Louise recalling childhood memories.
We had an ice cream, then went and got chips to have with some chicken back at the boat. It had been a long day so early to bed. Tomorrow we head for Caernarvon, through the Menai Straights.
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