Porth Dinllaen

Porth Dinllaen is about 15mins drive from our self-catering holiday cottages, and extremely popular beach on the Lleyn Peninsula - as featured in the TV series - "Great Pubs of Wales".

Owned by the National Trust, Porth Dinllaen - together with Nefyn and Morfa Nefyn form a magnificent 2 miles of sweeping bay .Accessed only on foot - the beach has a traditional pub - Ty Coch - right on the water's edge with a magnificent golf course on the headland above. It was once destined to be the main port to Ireland, if it wasn't for one vote that swayed in the favor of Holyhead in Anglesey.

Porthdinllaen Lifeboat Station

- is the home of the Hetty Rampton - a self-righting lifeboat with a top speed of 18 knots. Built at a cost of £560,000 she was given as a gift from the Trustees of the Miss Hetty Mabel Rampton's Charitable Trust in 1987, thus christened that name. During the summer, various open days allow you to meet the crew and cox, as well as a beach BBQ in August.

Being part of a Special Area of Conservation , Porth Dinllaen has a diverse marine enviroment and sea divers have come across some interesting finds in the bay like Omalosecosa Reef,anemones,the very rare cup coral,mussels and seagrass beds.Lobster pots are regularly transported by tractor across the beach from this pretty cove.The National Trust exhibition ( open daily through the summer)describes how people have made a living in the small, seaside village over the last 200 years.

During 2005, this 18th Century fishing village was used as a filming location for the film " Half Light" starring Demi Moore. It is here they shot the Scottish fishing village scenes, indeed some of the scenes were filmed inside the Ty Coch pub, and a picture of Demi Moore testifies to this.

The inn is open from Easter until the end of October - being a wonderful traditional bar where the old beams are covered in a mini-museum of vintage jugs, mugs and bottles, and maritime memories.

An easy circular walk is to go along the beach to Morfa Nefyn, along the headland then onto the Nefyn golf course and down to the Lifeboat Staion at Porth Dinllaen.

A geocache site also exists here named "Can You Spy a Seal?". For all of you that are new to the sport - Geocaching is an exciting pursuit game of hi-tech treasure hunting especially for GPS users, using their geocache mapping capabilities for finding sites known as caches!