Friday, August 14, 2009

Pembrokeshire Coast walk - August 3-4

The Pembrokeshire Coast Path follows the south west coast of Wales for about 300km from Amroth to St Dogmaels. I walked the section from Fishguard to Newport and part of the section from Newport to St Dogmaels.
To get to the start of the walk at Fishguard I travelled by train from London (via Swansea). The weather was fine when I arrived but then, as forecast, it rained overnight and all the next day - Day 1 of the walk. Day 2 started with rain but quickly cleared and I arrived at the end in bright sunshine. I finished the walk at Poppit Sands as I had to be in time to catch a bus to Aberystwyth.


View from Fishguard to the old fort on the headland near the start of the walk. This was taken on the day I arrived - before the rain.

View of the valley below Fishguard.

... another view of the valley below Fishguard.

Lower Fishguard.

The Fishguard fort near the start of the walk on Day 1.

Some of the track - hard to keep the boots dry and clean :-(

The track was generally well marked. Just had to follow the acorn symbols and keep the sea on my left.

Walked on my own the whole day and only saw about eight other people on the walk. I am glad my mother doesn't have access to a computer.

The path followed the cliff tops on the coast -the scenery was like this for most of the way.

Sometime in the afternoon - I must have met someone at this place.
Moylegrove at the start of the walk on Day 2.

The great scenery continued on Day 2.

On the second day I walked with Christine whom I met in Newport.

The end of the walk at Poppit Sands - actually the sun was shining in spite of all the clouds in this photo.

1 comment:

  1. Well maybe the weather was bad but the names must have been pretty entertaining. St Dogmaels indeed! And couldn't they come up with a more charming name for a town than Lower Fishguard? Aberystwyth begins as if its author was trying to produce a regular, memorable and pronounceable, name, then seems to disappear into an abyss.

    Lovely scenery too, while also somewhat familiar. The buildings look a lot different but from the nature it's easy to see how Australia reminded Captain Cook of Wales. Unless I'm totally wrong about that story in which case I'm sure Graeme will point it out.

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