Island 125 - Salt Island, Holy Island, Anglesey, Wales

Salt Island, which is known in Welsh as Ynys Halen, will definitely not be winning any prizes in a beauty contest.  It is a tidal island, which has now been incorporated into the port of Holyhead and is linked to Holy Island by a short bridge.  Access is only allowed for those on port business or who are catching a ferry to Ireland.  It has a high wall around it. However when I arrived it was low tide and it was possible to walk across to it.  The rocky shore is on the outside of the wall and is therefore accessible.  There was a good deal of litter lying around on the rocks and in the mud.   The island is so called, as it once had a factory on it, which extracted salt from seawater.

Salt Island from Holyhead

Salt Island