South Wales day two.

Day two in Wales...August 23, 2008.
We started out by having the traditional Full English Breakfast which is offered at most British B&B's. This consists of but is not limited to: 2 eggs, usually over easy, sausage links, bacon, sliced tomato, mushrooms, sometimes baked beans, (but not at this one), and instead of baked beans they served black pudding. Now the consistency was nothing like pudding that we know and the other times they use the word pudding is meant to be a dessert. But this was a small round blackish spongy thing (Ed likens it to a hockey puck but not that hard) that the slice of tomato was perched upon. We didn't order that the next two mornings.We took off toward the coast line which is called the Gower coastal drive. There are a number of beaches along the way and we took in three of them. It was an overcast day so the water was grayish in color and it was windy and a bit cool. But the scenery was beautiful just the same. This beach is called Three Cliffs. We had to park at a farm and walk down a fairly steep bank to get to the beach. I'm assuming that these three rocks are what it's named after.
This is a view of one of the embankments around the beach. The tide is out and so the beach area is really big. The picture has some castle ruins at the top which we were going to go explore but the area to walk over to get to it hadn't dried out enough.
This is the third beach. The formation of rocks in the distance is called Worm's Head. Worm is the name of the dragon that is on the Welsh Flag and it is said that this looks like worm as he is laying down on his stomach at sea. During low tide many people hike out to explore the island. Our foot gear wasn't good enough as I was wearing flip flops and some of the area which you can't tell from here, were of jagged rocks that have lots of mussels and shells on them. Many people take out picnics or do some fishing. The area around there was very lush.
Here are some rock climbers. This was walking along the embankment to get to the beginning of Worm's Head. At the bottom of where he started is a grassy area and then crashing waves.
This is the path that we took to get to worm's head. These stone walls were all over Wales. If there aren't stone walls to separate fields, then they have miles of hedges. I rarely ever saw a fence like I am used to seeing in Kansas.
As we were driving from place to place, the road were soooo narrow that at times when you met another vehicle from the other direction, you either had to pull as far over on the bank as possible or back up as often there were hedges are these walls to contend with.