This was the second find of the day whilst out with sarahjones65 on Holy Island, Anglesey and it was quite a relief to find it as our geocaching activities had gone a little pear-shaped today. Things had taken a lot longer than expected on our two previous caches at North Stack and Holyhead Mountain and we had to abandon two nearby caches due to hunger and exhaustion. However, after returning to the car park at Breakwater Country Park and buying some stuff from the cafe, we realised that this cache was very close by and should be an easy find.
Whilst in the cafe I overheard some people talking about seals and seal cubs in a cave down on the shoreline, so I took my telephoto lens along with me just in case we saw them. We found the cache very quickly as it was in a rather nice but obvious place. We signed the log, took a small dinosaur and left a Girls Aloud musical toy thingy. Then we went for a look along the coastline where I spotted a grey seal's head bobbing in the water. Some people had gathered at an inlet a little further up the coast and so we headed for where they were just as they were leaving. Sure enough, they had been looking at a pure white seal cub in a cave, which did not seem to be moving at all. After five minutes it still hadn't moved and so sadly we thought it might be dead.
In the inlet there was also a grey heron which kept my photographic interest for a while until I noticed both a grey and a white seal in the water just off the rocks. Then something made an incredible barking or groaning sound which echoed around the inlet - it must have been one of the seals. It really took us by surrise and seemed almost unreal. Before leaving I had another look at the first white seal cub and I was sure it moved. Sarah looked through some binoculars and confirmed that it had rolled slightly, but not much, but at least it was alive. We had stayed for about 15 minutes absolutely fascinated at seeing nature fairly close up at first hand - we townies don't often come across sights like this, so thanks for bringing us here.
Happily we returned to the car after having rescued our day from being what was, at first, quite disappointing. Actually that's not absolutely true, as I'd said to Sarah on Holyhead Mountain that it was worth getting up here even if there hadn't been a cache, and the same was true here.
This was the second find of the day whilst out with sarahjones65 on Holy Island, Anglesey and it was quite a relief to find it as our geocaching activities had gone a little pear-shaped today. Things had taken a lot longer than expected on our two previous caches at North Stack and Holyhead Mountain and we had to abandon two nearby caches due to hunger and exhaustion. However, after returning to the car park at Breakwater Country Park and buying some stuff from the cafe, we realised that this cache was very close by and should be an easy find.
Whilst in the cafe I overheard some people talking about seals and seal cubs in a cave down on the shoreline, so I took my telephoto lens along with me just in case we saw them. We found the cache very quickly as it was in a rather nice but obvious place. We signed the log, took a small dinosaur and left a Girls Aloud musical toy thingy. Then we went for a look along the coastline where I spotted a grey seal's head bobbing in the water. Some people had gathered at an inlet a little further up the coast and so we headed for where they were just as they were leaving. Sure enough, they had been looking at a pure white seal cub in a cave, which did not seem to be moving at all. After five minutes it still hadn't moved and so sadly we thought it might be dead.
In the inlet there was also a grey heron which kept my photographic interest for a while until I noticed both a grey and a white seal in the water just off the rocks. Then something made an incredible barking or groaning sound which echoed around the inlet - it must have been one of the seals. It really took us by surrise and seemed almost unreal. Before leaving I had another look at the first white seal cub and I was sure it moved. Sarah looked through some binoculars and confirmed that it had rolled slightly, but not much, but at least it was alive. We had stayed for about 15 minutes absolutely fascinated at seeing nature fairly close up at first hand - we townies don't often come across sights like this, so thanks for bringing us here.
Happily we returned to the car after having rescued our day from being what was, at first, quite disappointing. Actually that's not absolutely true, as I'd said to Sarah on Holyhead Mountain that it was worth getting up here even if there hadn't been a cache, and the same was true here.
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