It was a peach of a morning – clear blue sky, unusually clear and sun. By ten o’clock, they had closed the road to the beach and the local village was over-run. The phenomenon of the staycation is real in Anglesey, with three times as many people as usual everywhere, the campsite full, the single street full of cars, what is normally a quiet small village chock full of people.

We sloped off to the mud flats of Malltraeth Estuary instead:-