Lost Buoy

Washed up at Port y Pistyll.

Porth y Pistyll from west

Drilling rig coming here soon.

Fuschia Hedge

Fuschia hedge near Castyll Gardens, Porth y Pistyll still looking great.

Water Pipes Laid to Porth y Pistyll

Water pipes laid on to the cove at Porth y Pistyll.

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.

Additional Survey Works west of Wylfa A

Scaffolding to west of Wylfa, set aside for additional survey work. This beach will be turned into a landing stage for seaborne deliveries

Keel Survives Another Winter at Port y Pistyll

The remains if this wrecked ship still survives in Porth y Pistyll.

Keel remains at Port y Pistyll, near Cestyll Gardens, Wylfa Power Station

Stormy Weather at Porth y Pistyll

Really strong north winds drive waves against the shore at Cemlyn and Porth y Pistyll.

Looking North

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

Reduced Access by Public

I would suggest that public access to this section of the footpath network is reducing. This kissing gate between Castyll Gardens and Wylfa to Porth y Pystel is barely used now and the thorns and gorse are closing in around it. The muddy nature o f the footpaths and the noise of the machinery may be displacing regular walkers to the quieter ares to the west and east.

Breakwater

This is what a breakwater at Port yr Ogof might look like at high tide.
This one is in Plymouth Sound.

Wylfa Off-Shore Proposals at Porth y Pistyll

The consultation day yesterday was interesting. Lot more details about roads and positioning of buildings as well as the earthmoving and landscape alterations.
What will the seascape look like with a 5m high (above high water) structure to protect the landing area at Porth y Pistyll?

Port y Pistyll

Porth y Pistyll

New Work Cages Set Up

As the first drill sites are completed rigs move on to new sites, and the next locations are also set up.

New drill site marked out and being prepared for the drill to me moved to it
at Porth y Pistyll, Wylfa.

Storm Weather - Porth y Pistyll

Painting of Porth y Pistyll

Artist Major FA Molony recorded Porth y Pistyll  in 1939

Wreck at Porth y Pistyll

The remains of a keel with stem scarf has re-emerged in a gully after movement of sand and stones in recent storms. It regularly disappears and re-appears. There is also the remains of an engine block buried in the gully.

Porth-y-pistyll

This is now the preferred point for a unloading dock to bring in equipment and parts for Wylfa B.

Porth y Pistyll with Cemlyn Bay Trwyn Cemlyn
 and The Skerries / Ynysoedd y Moelrhoniaid in distance.