| About these wonderful creatures that swim in the bay. This is a photo of a Tope, caught and released by Paul H in July of 2005 |
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| About the Leatherback Turtle. This is the worlds largest recorded
leatherback turtle. It was washed ashore on Shell Island Beach, (recorded as Harlech Beach) in 1988.The turtle
weighed 916kg and measured 2.91m in length. Leatherback turtles are highly migratory and have been recorded migrating thousands of
kilometres from Caribbean nesting beaches to summer foraging habitat off Canada and the North East Atlantic. |
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| About the smuggling tunnel. This is the exit to the tunnel
that empties onto the beach. This tunnel is said to travel directly to the
house and then onto Llanbedr. On high tides it is possible to see
the tunnel as air bubbles raise to the surface near to the estuary road |
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About the well. This was the original source of
water on the island before water was pumped across
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| About the ghost that haunts the house, that has been seen
many times by the end of a bed looking into the bed and then disappearing |
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About the SSSI (Site of Special Scientific Interest)
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| About
the elephants that live in the swamp that capture and eat the sheep
in the spring....... |
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Shell Island Campers
