Checking Lobster Pots at Porth yr Ogof

Regular checking of lobster pots.

Porth yr Ogof

Picnic on the Beach at Porth yr Ogof

Summers day at last, in this variable summer.
People enjoy the beach at Porth yr Ogof, but others still quiet.

Fishing from beach at Porth yr Ogof

Usually fishing takes place from the rocks. Today a group were fishing from the shore.

Fishing at Port yr Ogof

Spring Already

Spring already? Here at Port y Ogof.

Porth yr Ogof Still Closed

The beach to Porth yr Ogof is still closed. The access way made to dismantle the old lifeboat station is unstable and having taken away the galvanised steps to the side of the old building there is no way down until new steps are made.

Eroding Access to Porth yr Ogof

Dry and sunny morning. Amazing.

but the high tides continue to wash away the new ramp created at Porth yr Ogof.

Calm Christmas Day

A calm and sunny Christmas Day. Having just been through two Atlantic storms a third is on its way for 27-28Dec.

The access roadway to Porth yr Ogof is starting to be eroded away and be washed away by rain and underground water running from inland. The demolition material is being uncovered which they buried beneath the trackway used by the machines to pull down the old lifeboat station.

Cracks appearing at Port yr Ogof

The access track created to demolish the old lifeboat station is beginning to crumble already. A combination of being washed away from the high tide level, seeping ground water and an unstable angle of rest created by the piling up of loose clay. The construction material of the old lifeboat station was buried under the piled up soil and will soon be uncovered by natural erosion.

Winds from NW

Sheltered bay whilst waves roll in from the NW.

Porth yr Ogof

Porth yr Ogof

View from Wylfa Head east to Cemaes

Wylfa Head looking towards Cemaes Bay
looking across Porth yr Ogof.

Burial of all Rubble at Porth yr Ogof

All the rubble from the demolition of the lifeboat house seems to have been buried underneath the widened path to the beach. The clay to the left still seems to be collapsing as it is too steep to hold its own against gravity and the water that seeps down the valley from the west.

Demolition rubble used as base for the the new access road.

Rubble from the walls and roof of the former lifeboat station at Porth yr Ogof
seem to have been buried to produce a new, wider track
down to the beach.

Only the rear wall and side walls now exist of the former
lifeboat house at Porth yr Ogof.

Clearing up around Old Lifeboat Station

A Sunday morning and the debris from the demolished lifeboat station are being cleared away. Not proving to be easy because the small spring that drains the small valley above the beach has been turned into sticky mud. The dumper truck is having to use the rubble to provide a trackway up which it can drive. This doesn't seem very environmentally desirable ...

Old Lifeboat House at Porth yr Ogof Demolished

The planned and approved demolition of the old lifeboat house at Porth yr Ogof to the east of the Wylfa power station has now taken place. See Posting on 20 February, 2013.
Why did this have to happen? It is a small building at the foot of a cliff with only a small footpath to a secluded beach. In an earlier description of proposed works to create Wylfa 'B' access from the sea for deliveries was proposed from this bay. But the new thinking brings supplies in from the west side (thereby destroying the visual impact and National Trust land and the AONB scenic coast!).
Any bats that might have used the building will now have to find the new bat house created on the edge of the trees fringing the Wylfa Nature Trail as designated in the planning decision..

Demolition of the old lifeboat hoouse at Porth yr Ogof, Wylfa Head, Anglesey
as part of planning application and approval for ecological and
demolition works around the site of a yet to be approved
nuclear power station at Wylfa.

Site notice by new Horizon and Du Construction at
demolished lifeboat station, Porth yr Ogof, Anglesey for
works around Wylfa nuclear power station.

Preparing to Demolish Old Lifeboat Station, Porth yr Ogof

Preparations by new Horizon to demolish
the old lifeboat station at Porth yr Ogof

New Path to Beach at Porth yr Ogof

A JCB has spent a couple of days cutting back the bank leading to the beach at Porth yr Ogof.
The old path had virtually been washed away at its base, leaving a 6 foot jump to the beach itself.

New path cut to beach at Porth yr Ogof, Wylfa Head.