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North Wales: Day 2 – Morfa Nefyn
Today we made the pilgrimage to Morfa Nefyn on the Llŷn Peninsula, the beach and golf-course where four generations of the Tate-Bingley extended families regularly holidayed together between about the 1930s and 1970s. The weather was warm and sunny, thumbing a nose at meterological statistics indicating the region experiences on average less than 1200 sunshine hours per year. At Lifeboat Bay, Caroline had a ceremonial dip in the ocean, which she described as ‘great’ and ‘refreshing’. Comments overheard from other bathers were less complimentary about the water temperature.
In anticipation of our next destination, we finished the day by eating whole Yorkshire river trout – a delicacy not available in NZ!
Morfa Nefyn Beach and village
Morfa Nefyn Beach – boulders have now been placed at the bottom of the cliff, where the beach huts used to be, to reduce the erosion and landslide risk
Lon Golff – road to golf course
View of ‘the Rivals’ / Yr Eifl mountains from golf club car park
Club house, with Madryn mountain behind
Golf course walkway to Lifeboat Bay
Borthwen beaches aka ‘Pebbles’ to our family
Porthdinllaen beach party
Coast guard lookout station
Lifeboat Bay with new boat house (which has a small museum)
Old slipway with Boduan mountain across the sea on right
Yorkshire river trout dinner
New Zealand Family History Search 