GIST: Sitting on a stone wall outside the Pilot Cottages Museum, enjoying the breath taking scenic views and watching visitors enter and leave the two tiny buildings at the end of a row of four small cottages which were built for the pilots who helped boats navigate into the ports along the Menai Strait.
These guys were heroes back in their day. As well as guiding commercial shipping, the pilots crewed the Llanddwyn lifeboat until its withdrawal from service in 1903. The little museum houses information about their lives and beautifully re-creates the cramped, but cosy, one-up-one-down living conditions in which they had to live and raise their families.
Lots of people passed through in the short time that I was there. Suddenly a happy holidaying couple tumbled through the exit door with their three young children. They paused for a moment of contemplation after the museum experience.
HE: It must have been dreadful, having to live in there during the winter.SHE: Yes, really hard.
HE: Imagine ... No Play Station ... No telly ... No mobile phone
... Just the sound of the sea bashing on your window.
SHE: Terrible.
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