It’s what walking’s all about
Continuing our walk around Cardiff in the mud! Alec had said I ought to record the muddy paths we trod, so I did, here’s the evidence.
Alec
Yet another solitary tree
Photographers like solitary trees, they can be quite reflective of mood, light, location and occasion. This one was caught just north of St Fagans – an oak tree in a large field otherwise grazed by sheep.
Salmon Leaps
Just outside Dinas Powis in the Vale of Glamorgan, near to Michaelstone-le-Pit, are the disused fisheries known as Salmon Leaps. There’s a lovely circular walk from Dinas Powis that takes these in, as well as extension off it that goes to Caerau and the unexpected vantage point that allows you to look over the city …
Patterns in Mud
The River Usk, alomng with the Wye and Severn, experiences a very high tidal range. This results in extensive tidal mud flats which, as in this case, can take on extraordinary patterns – created as the water drains off the flooded river banks, onto the flats and into the river as the tide goes out. …
Vegetarians – look away!
One for Shells and Ruth maybe?? The shoot of course applies to activities that take place when the cows aren’t there, on the marshlands of the Gwent Levels.
Training
Another picture taken during a Wales Coastal Path walk – this one on the sands at Porthcawl where surf life-saving training was going on.
Nash Point
Walking along the Wales Coastal Path – this is one of my favourite stretches the cliff between Llantwit Major and Ogmore. The lighthouse at Nash Point is a much-visited local landmark.
Wentlooge Levels
I’d thought this stretch of the Wales Coastal Path might have been a “bit boring” with not much variety in landscape – nothing could have been further from the truth. It may be flat but the wild flowers, the birds, the butterflies and moths and the fascinating salt marsh make this a quite captivating area.
Chepstow Castle from the old bridge
The start of the Wales Coastal Path (in the south). Whether I’ll get all the way round it … who knows. At the the time of writing this, I’ve reached The Mumbles. You can follow my progress here.
Looking across to Cardiff Bay from Lavernock
The dawdle from Cardiff Bay to Barry Docks is a great “local” walk if you can forgive the boring bits along the clifftop from Penarth to Lavernock (where the views of the estuary are hidden behind scrubby vegetation) and the long drag into Barry Docks through commercial and industrial space. In between you have views …