Saturday, 14 September 2024

Marloes Sands & Marloes Deer Park

Marloes Sands (Welsh: Traeth Marloes) is an approx. 1.5 kilometres  long remote sandy beach in Pembrokeshire, Wales, near the village of Marloes.

The surrounding cliffs are layered with red sandstone and grey shale. A feature of the beach is the Three Chimneys, three vertical lines of hard silurian sandstone and mudstone. There used to be four chimneys, but the fourth crumbled in a severe storm of 1954.

The area at the far end of the peninsula is named after a failed attempt to establish a deer park in the late 18th to early 19th century. 











































Friday, 13 September 2024

Coast walk - Newgale beach to Caerfai Bay

Another 8 mile coast walk, starting from Newgale beach and back to St David's via the village of Solva.

Solva lies on a deep valley at the mouth of the River Solva. In the valley is Lower Solva, consisting of a long street ending at the small harbour. Solva Harbour is a good example of a ria — a flooded coastal valley or inlet. Local rocks contain fossils from the Cambrian period, and the village gives its name to the Solva Group, a rock sequence.