Two female visitors from Manchester had to be rescued by Llandudno’s RNLI inshore lifeboat at mid-day yesterday (Sunday) after being marooned on offshore sandbanks by the incoming tide.
The pair, with their four dogs, had walked out some way on the extensive sands off Llandudno’s west shore. The flood tide had then filled the North Deep channel behind them, cutting them off from the shore and forcing them to make for an emergency refuge raft moored on the sandbanks for the purpose.
The women phoned the Coastguards to ask for help and as a result Llandudno’s inshore lifeboat was launched at 12.30 p.m. The volunteer lifeboat crew took the whole group to safety at the nearby Black Rocks.
