Picspam West Wales Part 2

[linda_joyce]

An other introduction and some general views.

This rook was on the beach by the car park every morning, we know it was him because unlike the other crows that came and went he didn't say Caw Caw, he said eh oh and twitter and Caw, he had a repetoire.

Below are pictures of the sides and back of the local bus whose route took it to all the beaches during the season, it started at Poppit Sands and was called the Poppit Rocket.







I took my camera for a walk after Sue had come back from around the right hand head lane on a particularly low tide day and said there was a water fall over there that she had never noticed before. The tide wasn't low enough for me to get near it but I took this by hitching my skirt into my waist band and wading out into the sea.



and this is what I looked like before this daring deed, a kind man, I would call him elderly but I don't think he was more than ten years older than me, offered to take my photo for me when he and his son/companion saw me walking towards the water fall alone. You may see it in the background.


And finally for this part, a selection of the geology of this part of the beach.

Comments

[reapermum.livejournal.com]

That is gorgeous geology.

You haven't mentioned them for a while, but seeing your stick reminded me. How are your knees these days?

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

They were doing very well until I fell over one of the dogs on holiday. I am able to do with out the stick most of the time but still carry it just in case. This week I need it.
And my pictures don't really do the geology credit. If I'm back far enough to get the whole cliff I don't get details and if I'm close enough for details I don't have enough space.

[quarryquest.livejournal.com]

That geology is fantastic! Lovely folded strata. When you see stuff like that you understand the geography lessons we had at school.

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

Exactly, it also makes me think of the forces involved to bend rock that way.

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

Now you are a brave explorer! Wow, these layers are wonderful, beautiful cliffs, wild and colourful!I believe there were nice stones everywhere, mmmm, stones are my weakness, I must collect them everywhere. Of course, my room looks like a quarry!:-)

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

Sue collects rock too but she has a special part of her garden where she puts them all. This time she took home about 6 smallish (about the size of the palm of my hand)pieces of mixed quartz and the Silurian sandstones that dominate that area. I felt like a castaway on a desert island walking along the coast in her first exploration of the island. Apart from the gentlemen going back towards civilization I was all alone there for about an hour.

[inyadreems.livejournal.com]

Isn't it great to see blue skies at last? The seaside is the best place to be. Poppit Rocket indeed!

I love the photo of the rook.

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

He welcomed us the first morning and posed so prettily on the sign post that I just had to snap him.

[kalinda001.livejournal.com]

Georgeous geology shots. I esp love the one right after the bus ones. It almost looks like a painting.

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

That was an experiment, I remembered that my camera had a setting specifically for taking pictures on the beach and that is how it cam out when I used it. I do like it the effect it makes.

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

Yes that's a grey seal pup, Pembrokeshire has a large colony of grey seals. We often see the adults out in the bay when the beach is quiet but as yet we haven't seen the pups, the breeding colony is at a place called Skoma. There's dolphins in the bay too and porpoises, we saw one or the other last year, a pod of about 6 were feeding close in shore

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Wonderful pics of the rook and rocks! Is that a seal on the side of the bus?

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

Yes that's a grey seal pup, Pembrokeshire has a large colony of grey seals. We often see the adults out in the bay when the beach is quiet but as yet we haven't seen the pups, the breeding colony is at a place called Skoma. There's dolphins in the bay too and porpoises, we saw one or the other last year, a pod of about 6 were feeding close in shore
This may come through twice, from the arrangement of comments it looks as if I sent this to myself first time round.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Wow, dolphins too? We have a lot of those, but seals are further south. I remember one coming ashore though when I was a kid.

[javahound.livejournal.com]

I love the bus!
Beautiful scenery and how kind of that man to take a picture of you. :)
Isn't that amazing how the rock was bent.

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

That's the British for you, very reserved but will offer to take pictures for you if you are alone or in a group they will ask the photographer if they would like a picture with them in it. I've done that myself a good few times. They've really gone to town on the Bus this year, in previous years it's only had a few seagulls on it. Geology fascinates me for that very reason.

[javahound.livejournal.com]

As a hobby I like geology as well.

[sue-chose-this.livejournal.com]

Super pictures.

How lovely that you had sunny skies and solitude - not easy to get that combination really with all the tourists out in the summer.