Saturday 27th - Sunday 28th June: waiting

I hoped that the next leg of the trip would be to the Isle of Man, and from there to the N.Ireland coast and back across the North Channel to pick up the Scottish coast north of the tip of the Mull of Kintyre. For that, several things needed to come together: low wind, good vis, low lightning risk and, crucially, a paddling partner for the IoM leg as I had made a promise not to do that 40 mile crossing solo.
There are several good paddlers on Anglesey who expressed interest in the trip but, in the event, no-one was available.
On Saturday I paid a visit to Nigel Dennis' place to meet Petr Major, who started his trip round Britain from Poole a couple of weeks after I passed there, and who has now caught up and arrived in Anglesey. Petr is camping rough the whole way round, and is managing without a trolley by the simple expedient of splitting his 3-piece Explorer and man-handling each piece up the beach separately. We sat in the sun chatting, but in the end Petr made the perfectly reasonable decision that the IoM trip wasn't for him.
So, on Monday, I head east along the N.Wales coast and then up the west coast of England, tackling the shoals of Liverpool and Morecambe Bay, and dealing with the security issues that come with major urban centres.