Spend your morning exploring Mariandyrys North Wales Wildlife Nature Reserve. It’s on the island’s little south-eastern peninsula that ends at a headland overlooking Puffin Island.

You’ll find the reserve about 3 miles/5km north of Beaumaris. Take the B5109 to Llangoed then on by minor road to the small community of Mariandyrys (there’s roadside parking at the reserve’s entrance).

Rising up from the surrounding landscape, this rugged limestone outcrop is both a haven for wildlife and a stunning viewpoint with long-range vistas across Anglesey and the North Wales coast.

It’s particularly lively in spring and summer when the lime-rich soil blooms with colourful wildflowers like early purple orchids and common rock rose, which in turn attract a host of fluttering butterflies and buzzing bees. There’s also a thriving bird population, with stonechats and linnets nesting in the dense gorse surrounding the reserve.

Then return to Beaumaris. At the town’s Victorian pier hop aboard a boat trip. You’ll journey along the Menai Strait for a trip around Puffin Island, noted for its abundant seabirds. Depending on when you visit, you can expect to spot kittiwakes, cormorants, razorbills, guillemots and (of course) puffins.

Alongside Anglesey’s feathered inhabitants, you might also see some of the grey seals that live on the island’s eastern shore and spy bottlenose dolphins and harbour porpoises arcing through the waves. As well as an opportunity to see marvellous marine wildlife, travelling by sea provides spectacular views of Anglesey’s coast and the skyscraping peaks of Snowdonia on mainland Wales.

Dinner:  Beaumaris for pub classics or one of the many cafe's.