Our second day on The Gower, I awoke quite tired, but not as tired as poor A&A because their lilo had developed a puncture! They went off to Swansea to get a new footpump, having repaired the bed. Luckily, that was to prove a success, otherwise we’d have had to abandon the trip. So with the weather gloomy again, but with the promise of a better afternoon, we decided to put off our walk until after lunch which we had in The Ship at Port Eynon.
Alec has a thing about walking on sand. So although the WCP went behind the dunes between Port Eynon and Horton … we had to walk along the sand. Much grumbling and moaning from me – I hate walking on sand. We soon got beyond Horton however and enjoyed the low-level cliff walk looking down on the wave-cut platform and with me in my element describing solifluction terraces, periglaciation and abandoned cliffs. I may have ended up in computing, but my heart and mind has always been that of a geographer/geologist!
Looking back towards Port Eynon …
… and the WCP diversion near Slade where the path has slipped into the sea.
We were then not far from Oxwich and then the drizzled came down, heavier and heavier by the minute! We just had to stop at the Oxwich Bay Hotel to get some respite (for me – Doom Bar). We had a great chat with a couple from Northern Ireland who were camping nearby and if we’d had transport outside would have quite happily stayed there longer than we did. But we had to get across Oxwich Bay and the stream at it’s eastern end …
… before tackling Nicholaston Burrows which thankfully were not as exhausting as the ones at Penmaen the day before. Once again we enjoyed the wildflowers at the end of our 7 mile walk …
… but I, for one, was very pleased to have a lovely warm shower and dry out after climbing the hill to the campsite, before settling back for another lovely evening of food and drink.
