Puffin Island - GC13RVA

Puffin Island holds an important place in our family's life. In 2000 we bought a caravan at Plas Coch on Anglesey (under the old regime) and this was one of the best things we've ever done. Our family has grown up from toddlers to young adults in this caravan as we have spent every Easter and summer there for the last nine years. It's been a home from home.

Puffin Island marks the spot on the North Wales coast road when we know we are approaching Anglesey and are truly on holiday or having a short break from the daily routine of life. When the children were younger we used to play the game of '1000 points for the first person to spot Puffin Island' and they would strain out of their car seats to see over the roadside barriers to be the first, just before the car disappeared into Penmaenmawr Tunnel.

To us the caravan means swimming and kayaking in the surf on the beautiful beaches, lazy Sunday mornings making pancakes and reading the paper and, more recently, geocaching. We've been around the Island on a boat twice, once on a pleasure trip from Beaumaris Pier and once a fast moving RIB speedboat from Plas Coch. We haven't seen any puffins here, but we have seen seals and various other seabirds. I believe dolphins are also found around here sometimes.

Shame all this is coming to an end this year as our caravan has come to the end of its lifespan. We'll miss it and Puffin Island.