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Archive for the ‘Pembrokeshire’ Category
Puffins in Jack Sound, Pembrokeshire Leave a comment
Larger than life 1 comment
Puffins, gotta love them. These guys on Skomer Island in Pembrokeshire practically came and stared down my lens…
Crowded House Leave a comment
Presumably this little fellow is trying to figure out where (if anywhere) he is going to land. Presumably that’s him also in the photo just below, elated at having secured himself a spot. The location is Elegug Stacks in South Pembrokeshire. Guillemots galore…
One Day Like This Leave a comment
So throw those curtains wide! One day like this a year’d see me right Elbow
Whitesands Leave a comment
Mrs R, playing in the surf at Whitesands Bay in Pembrokeshire. All good.
Dead Birds Leave a comment
Hey, why not? Found at Orkney, Galloway and Pembrokeshire.
Fragments of Pembrokeshire Leave a comment
A few random images of wonderful south west Wales.
Bishops and Clerks 3 comments
We launched at dawn from Whitesands Bay in Pembrokeshire, ferrygliding west past St David’s Head, the most westerly point of the Welsh mainland. After an hour we reached the Bishops and Clerks, a chain of rocky islands inhabited only by seals, puffins, razorbills and guillemots. We explored each of these islets in turn, finally reaching [...]
Liminal Zones Leave a comment
Carreg Samson cromlech, Pembrokeshire How did the people who constructed this now-eroded burial monument ‘see’ their world and their landscape? Why was it constructed and how was it used? What was the significance of the cromlech’s coastal location? How did it relate to the surrounding landscape? No one living can definitively answer these questions. The fact is, that [...]
Hut Circles Leave a comment
‘Hut Circles’ are a common sight along our coasts, often denoting the site of a Iron or Bronze Age prehistoric settlement. They are particularly prevalent within Promontory Forts. Sometimes they are delineated by rocks around the edges, more usually they are recognisable as simple circular indentations in the ground. I passed a draft book chapter about ‘Prehistoric [...]
Ramsey Island Leave a comment
Ramsey Island is a rather fine isle located just west of the St David’s peninsula, which is basically the last bit of Wales before Ireland. The narrow strait between Ramsey Island and the mainland sees tide flows of 7 knots or more, when these tides spill over a volcanic rock ledge, they form the famous Bitches tidal rapid. We [...]
Easter Tour Leave a comment
Just returned from a splendid two weeks of sea paddling that has been diverse, to put it mildly. First we visited Pembrokeshire in west Wales. Then, we headed to London and the Thames estuary. After a quick call in back home, we had planned to head up to NE England or maybe Anglesey in north [...]
West of Wales 1 comment
Just returned from a productive few days based at St David’s in Pembrokeshire. When the weather was dodgy, we worked. When the weather was good, we paddled… The photo above shows us a few miles out from St David’s Head, the westernmost point of the Welsh mainland, just after dawn. Pictured below is South Bishop [...]
Easter Tour Leave a comment
The Easter hols have arrived and instead of getting stuck in Asia by ash clouds, this year we’ve decided to stay in the UK for a ‘working’ holiday and tour around lugging sea kayaks, cameras, textbooks and laptops. First stop: Pembrokeshire. Splendid.
London Kayakathon 2011 Leave a comment
The picture above shows Chris Wheeler paddling in Pembrokeshire. Good times and treasured memories. Dartmoor Search and Rescue Team Ashburton are a volunteer Mountain Rescue team, part of the Dartmoor Rescue Group. On the night of 21st November 2009, the DartmoorSearch and Rescue Team Ashburton were called out to the River Dart valley, after the [...]
South West (Wales) Sea Kayaking 5 7 comments
We returned to the mainland on Sunday evening having paddled relatively few miles, we’d kept on stopping to say hello to the puffins! On Monday morning, deteriorating weather and work commitments had driven away most of the folk pictured above, just leaving Chris Wheeler, Heather and I. We were keen to visit Skokholm Island; via a [...]
South West (Wales) Sea Kayaking 4 Leave a comment
There’s always one … Elegug Stacks, south Pembrokeshire. Home to many, many, many guillemots.
Fratercula Arctica Leave a comment
A resident of Skomer Island Marine Nature Reserve, Pembrokeshire. Planning, research and photography for the book continues … more information to follow, watch this space!
South West (Wales) Sea Kayaking 3 6 comments
Puffin day! Sunday saw us paddling across the tide races of Jack Sound to visit Skomer Island. Skomer is home to phenomenal birdlife; 128 000 pairs of Manx Shearwaters, 20 000 pairs of guillemots, 10 000 pairs of razorbills, and 6000 pairs of puffins. All of these birds were out and about, filling the skies. [...]
South West (Wales) Sea Kayaking 2 Leave a comment
We escaped across the Severn Bridge into Wales on the Friday night, keen to make the best of a good forecast for the Bank Holiday weekend. As it happened, the weather wasn’t what we were hoping for (often too much wind) but we still enjoyed a wonderful weekend in Pembrokeshire, our favourite part of Wales. [...]
