We did a very good walk from the pub. Just under 11 miles around Broughton Bay, Whiteford Sands Bay, Whiteford Nature Reserve and back over Llanmadoc Hill.
It was a bit rainy to start with but cleared up and the day was bright and sunny with the occasional heavy rain shower.
The beach at Broughton Bay was easy to walk on and practically deserted.
A highlight was seeing and hearing Choughs which came very close to us as they foraged in the grass tussocks in the dunes.
Further on at Whiteford Sands the shoreline was thick for about a mile with thousands and thousands of Oystercatchers. In the bay was Whiteford Lighthouse, a rare example of a wave-swept cast iron lighthouse (according to Wikipedia). It was built in 1865, but is no longer operational. It had a lot of cormorants on it.
We walked to the end around Whiteford Point and then back inland along a very wet path through woods and dunes (“burrows”).
There were lots of rainbows today. Everywhere you looked there was one.
Nice ploughman’s at the Britannia Inn, Llanmadoc, then a steep climb up Llanmadoc Hill.
Good views from the top. To the west we could see Tenby and in the distance St Govan’s Head on the distant Pembrokeshire coast, and to the South Ilfracombe and Lundy Island and North Devon.
Birds today included: Choughs, Ravens, Reed Buntings, Kestrel, Skylarks, very many Oystercatchers.