Coastal Path
By Rhiannonw
Gathering together the verses I've written about different aspects of walking on the coastal path
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The coastal path, nr Trefin, May (1) flowers
Gale tugging at hats, and whipping the waves, white horses cresting the rolling swells, rich golden gorse, and patches of bluebells, ox-eyes* and sea...
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Coastal path – (2) sound
High above the ocean, sea swells in motion – rounding smooth crags, pounding rock snags of splintering rocks splitting the surge, tossing away into...
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Coastal Path (3) – birds
Martins swoop, and loop the loop – out from the cliff whizz out to scoop unseen insects, whirl return: too fast to click a fly-past pic. Gulls upon a...
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Coastal Path (4) Pen Dinas/Dinas Head
Down the twisty, steep and narrow lane, walk the headland, almost island, up and up, wide sea green, bursts of golden gorse; pass the Needle rock...
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on the cliff path
We’re high above the sea; – it stretches far away … One boat in all that desert; we see a cormorant dive – so out of sight there teems …
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Coastal Path (5) – Horses
… no place for pampered horse – these, sturdy, dour with windswept manes unkempt survive, foot-sure.
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Memorial
Millstone becalmed, stock-still above the cove … memorial to bygone tale of bustling vale –
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Ocean
Swelling, surging, heaving … placid calm, bright and blue …
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on the Coast path 2/5/17
Dazzling gorse with its coconut smell, carpets of sparkling starry squill …
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Chough-chuffed
Eight choughs standing on the fence in a row – red in beak and red in toe, zoom the camera those three to better see – they’ve turned this way – to...
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Remoteness Day and Night
High above Rhossili beach* – dramatic, wide expanse of sand … far from the nearest city glow … the dazzle of the jewelled night.
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Arrival – Evening Wander
[04/05/19 North Pembrokeshire Coastal Path, Trefin] Evening golden sunlight, sharp keen sea wind, wander down to the cliff path … : refreshed.
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Transfixed!
Late evening ‘blow’ – a golden hue on the western horizon between cloud and sea, the sun still behind the cloud; walk on a little northwards around...
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Memories of May in North Pembrokeshire
Spring squill’s blue starlets sparkle the cliff’s stunted turf, salt in the air as the waves crash below, sea winds shaking out mental cobwebs,...
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Coastal Cottage (Pembrokeshire)
(painting J Maddocks) White-washed cottage … Sometimes ocean calm … sometimes grey and wild …
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Around The Havens
( Pembrokeshire, mid-September) The sea is vast. Wave crests rush in, breaking in white cascade. Invigorating salty sea-air blast. Summer’s end, and...
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Pembrokeshire — two seasons
Windswept coast county, trees lie low shaped by onshore gales rain lashes; but then the sun breaks through how vast the dome of blue and brightness,...
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Shores ever changing, new, fresh
… every visit seems quite new, heart, mind, senses refreshed.
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East from Cwm-yr-Eglwys
7/5/24) Sea mist over the sea and distant cliffs, walk the cliff path awhile. Down into a cove, see a couple of oyster catchers with their red legs...
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Beside the sea
Trefin, north Pembrokeshire Coastal path May 2025 … not seaside of the beach and sand but where the ocean meets the land with cliff and rocks and...
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Carreg Samson
north Pembrokeshire near Abercastle Carreg Samson (Samson’s stone) (– who else could have lifted it on to its throne?) A legend of a local Samson...
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