Qualla: Dulas Bay https://qualla.com/dulas-bay en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:13 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/z/dulas-bay-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Dulas Bay https://qualla.com/dulas-bay Dulas Bay: Introduction https://qualla.com/dulas-bay/ Photo credit Llywelyn2000, CC BY-SA 4.0. In 1821, a wealthy local man named James Hughes built a curious round stone tower with a cone-shaped roof on a small island a mile and a half off the east coast of Anglesey. Ynys Dulas - Seal Island, as the locals know it - had no fresh water, no shelter, and was too small for any permanent human use. Hughes' tower had only one purpose: to store food and provide shelter for shipwrecked sailors stranded by storms before help could arrive. The tower still stands. Seals still haul out on the rocks at its base. Two centuries on, ships still wreck themselves on the Anglesey coast occasionally - and Hughes' small Victorian act of kindness remains one of the most touching pieces of maritime architecture on the island.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/z/dulas-bay-wp/gckz-dulas-bay-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Dulas Bay: Three Beaches, Three Names https://qualla.com/dulas-bay/ Photo credit Cls14 at English Wikipedia, Public domain. Dulas Bay is small, and its geography is divided. The largest beach is Traeth Dulas, a sand-shingle-mud estuary where the Afon Goch - the Red River, named for the iron-rich water flowing down from Parys Mountain - meets the sea. Southeast of that, separated by a rocky outcrop cal...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/z/dulas-bay-wp/gckz-dulas-bay-three-beaches-three-names.mp3 0:06 2 full Dulas Bay: Owain Gwynedd's Sea Battle https://qualla.com/dulas-bay/ Photo credit Jonny Williams from Llandudno, United Kingdom, CC BY 2.0. Welsh oral tradition holds that in 1134, three years before he became King of Gwynedd, Owain ap Gruffydd - Owain Gwynedd - defeated a combined force of Irish, Manx and Norse raiders near Llangwyllog in the centre of Anglesey. The Welsh fleet then turned on the raiders' ships, whi...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/z/dulas-bay-wp/gckz-dulas-bay-owain-gwynedds-sea-battle.mp3 0:06 3 full Dulas Bay: The Manor That Was, the Boat-Setters Who Came https://qualla.com/dulas-bay/ Photo credit Talsarnau Times, CC BY-SA 3.0. Just inland is the village of Llysdulas - 'Dulas Court' - where the manor house Llys Dulas once stood. The land was held in antiquity by a Welsh family later called Llwyd, and passed through marriage to the Neave baronets and the Hughes family. When ownership passed to the Boston...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/z/dulas-bay-wp/gckz-dulas-bay-the-manor-that-was-the-boat-setters-who-came.mp3 0:06 4 full Dulas Bay: What the Air Sees https://qualla.com/dulas-bay/ Photo credit Roger Gilbertson, CC BY-SA 2.0. From above, Dulas Bay is a complex coastal handful: estuary, beach, offshore islands, manor ruins, salt marsh, all in a small space. About 1.5 km of shelf-like seabed less than 5 metres deep extends beyond Garreg Allan, the smallest offshore island, before dropping abruptly to de...

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