Today was spent walking from Cwm Ivy to Whitford Point, heading out via the beach and back along Whitford Burrows. My overriding memory of the trip, apart from the incredible haze that we are experiencing at the moment, will be of a simply amazing encounter that I had with two Read more…
As promised in my last post here are a couple of photographs of last nights sunset taken from Penclawdd on the north Gower coast. The sun was obscured by clouds as it reached the horizon which dampened the colours somewhat. Nevertheless it was another enjoyable display from this brilliant coast.
This morning was bright and clear so a plan was hatched to go and visit some of the local sites that we tend not to get to that often. First things first we had to negotiate the garden and a very vocal male House Sparrow which appears to have taken Read more…
While on the subject of sunsets from my last post I thought I would share a couple of pictures from earlier in the week. These were taken from below Cefn Bryn at sea level near Penclawdd. The water that can just about be seen at the base of the shots Read more…
Much of today was spent indoors glued to my laptop trying to work out why collecting tax couldn’t just be a whole lot simpler. I did manage a walk up the nearby valley during the early afternoon and was very pleased to hear the Green Woodpeckers again. Although I didn’t Read more…
Despite feeling considerably below par today I dragged myself down to Rhossili in the hope that some fresh air and sun would do the world of good. As it turned out they did bugger all but the birds that were around certainly took my mind off things for a while. Read more…
It has been over a week since my last posting and this has mostly been down to spending four days camping over the Bank Holiday weekend. We stayed just north of Fishguard and considering the weather forecast before we left had an amazing time. Ill put up some more detailed Read more…
I have taken a bit of a break from blogging this last week for a couple of reasons. Firstly the weather has been frankly atrocious and what sun there has been has coincided rather nicely with the hours that I am in work. Secondly I have been getting stuck into Read more…
The last few posts have been very bird focused so I spent yesterday evening researching a couple of photographs that I had taken during the recent low tides on Rhossili beach. As you can see below the subject isn’t particularly glamorous but it was interesting for me as I was Read more…
Sunday saw us taking on another lengthy walk starting from Rhossili Church before walking the length of the beach to Burry Holme and on around the coast to the Blue Pool. This is a supposedly bottomless rock pool that looked anything but. The return journey took us back along the Read more…