Planning Permission for Drilling at Port y Pystyll

View from Cestyll gardens towards where the drilling will take place off
Porth y Pystyll

BBC News Report

The firm behind an £8bn power station on Anglesey has been given permission to drill boreholes in the seabed as it prepares its building plans.

Wylfa Newydd power plant will employ more than 1,000 people once it begins working in the first half of the 2020s.

Horizon Nuclear Power will look at the seabed structure at Porth Y Pistyll after getting a marine licence.

It will use the information gathered for planning and design aspect of potential marine works at the site.

Looking North

Panarama looking north from survey site.
Castyll Gardens to the left, Porth y Pistyll in middle and Wylfa A on right.

Cestyll Gardens

Opening Days at May Bank Holiday in aid of RNLI.

Cestyll Gardens Open to Public 3-4-5 May

Cestyll Gardens open this weekend in aid of the RNLI.
Adults £2
No parking at the gardens.
Park and ride or walk from Wylfa Visitor Centre.

Local Arts Events

TIME and TIDE BELL and GEOMON LAUNCH
There will be a launch for the Cemaes TIDE and TIDE BELL on Saturday 19 April, 2014 beginning at 10.30am at the Big Beach Car Park.
The Time & Tide Bell will ring for the first time at 12.30 with the rising tide.
The event is combined with the launch of the Geomon trail. Land access has been negotiated with Horizon Nuclear Power between Wylfa and west Cemaes.

ANGLESEY OPEN STUDIOS
12 - 27 April, 2014
The 11th annual Anglesey Arts Forum, Open Studios 2014.
Local artists are :
Janet Smith, Nant y Mor, Bull Bay
Will Rowlands, Felin Gefin
Helen Grove-White, Brynddu, Llanfechell
Richard Daniels, Creigiau Mawr Pottery, Carreglefn
Malcom Ozanne, Rhiangwyn, Llanfechell

RNLI - CESTYLL GARDENS OPEN DAYS
from Wylfa Visitors Centre
Saturday 3rd May to Monday 5th May, 2014
10am to 4pm

Laying More Trackways

More trackways being created to prevent vehicles from getting bogged down.
Hard core being created by crushing the stone from the buildings demolished last year. A form of local recycling. The area being worked today leads to the beach next to Cestyll Gardens where the proposed breakwater is to be constructed.

Stormy Weather - Cestyll Gardens

Storm force winds bring down trees at Cestyll Gardens.

Effect of Storm Surge

The recent storms around the coast coinciding with high tides have not created much actual damage, though there has been erosion of coastal areas with sand and the edges of the grass fringes and dunes have been eroded. But also a lot of stones and sand have been thrown up the beaches and onto the coastal edges. Also a lot of seaweed has been pushed ashore and up the beaches.

Seaweed pushed up to Cestell Gardens.

Clearance of Trees Near Castell Gardens

On walk this morning there were half a dozen men with trucks and chainsaws removing dead fir trees.
On getting back home a letter from Horizon was delivered at 11am informing residents of imminent work to remove dangerous trees that were forming a Health and safety hazard close to the coastal footpath. And that work would start soon to remove trees starting near Cestell Gardens and the work would take one day.
Actually it was half completed by the time the letter was delivered!

Sunset Reflected at Cestell Gardens

Sunset reflected in the trees of Cestell Gardens

Cestyll Gardens in Spring

Cestyll Gardens in the spring.

View to Wylfa and Wylfa Head from Cemlyn

View towards Wylfa Head and Wylfa Power Station from Cemlyn.

View of Wylfa Power Station
from Cemlyn.

Wylfa Head Nature Reserve is to be seen behind and to the left of the power station.
The first pylon carrying power from the station is immediately above the Wylfa Nature Trail that is part of the Anglesey Coastal Footpath and is shown in an earlier posting.
Cestyl Gardens is in the bay between the near headland and the power station, and is also on the Anglesey Coastal Footpath.

Cestyll Gardens

To the west of Wylfa Power Station lies Cestyll Gardens.
Video of gardens.
BBC Report of the gardens.
Magnox web site reference to the gardens.
Coflein record by Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales.
NPRN 301555
watermill

Pine trees act as a windbreak for the gardens,
which is set in a small valley.

gates to the gardens.
Which are only open at Spring and Summer Bank Holidays.

The old pine trees are being thinned around the eastern side.

A rare  water mill is located on the foreshore.
This is managed by the National Trust.