Rainy Finish

The first part of the walk crossed a mile long embankment (the Cob) at the head of Malltraeth Sands. The tide was in and the water was almost lapping the embankment. There was a very strong wind blowing down the bay. Every time I tried to look out into the bay I was hit by a horizontal torrent of rain. From what I could make out the skies looked dark and menacing out at sea. Some horses were in a field on the landward side of the Cob and they were trying to stand in the meagre shelter of some gorse bushes. I reached the end of the Cob at the village of Malltraeth. A large information board gave detailed information about the Cob and how it was built. It was too wet to read it though. Later research revealed that the Cob was built in the early 1800s to drain and protect the Cefni Saltmarsh.  Shortly after its creation it was breached by a bad storm (no surprise there) and a high tide. It was rebuilt in 1812.

I don't turn around on many walks, but this was going to be one of them. I started making my way back over the Cob to the carpark. Even with my best waterproofs on the water penetrated to my base layers. I'd later learn that the Met Office had named this inclement weather as Storm Noa. It will quite probably be the shortest walks on Nun's Walks...and probably the wettest too.  It did knock 2 miles off my Anglesey Coast Path Venture.