Author: Alan Cole

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Rig lost at sea

What a day… Lovely winds and huge seas and a few other peoplke out windsurfing and kitesurfer here at Ynyslas on Saturday. All was going well, the adrenalin was flowing thanks to the big waves and I was having a really good windsurf session, until out the back my UJ snapped and my board went...

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Ynyslas Photos

Just some photos taken at Ynyslas today… A lovely sunny, windy autumnal day in the dunes. The dunes looked really nice with the grass flowing in the wind and the sun shining on them so I thought I take a few photos and share them with you here.

Aber MTB Time Trial Series 2

Aber MTB Time Trial Series

I’ve been ‘back into’ mountain-biking for about a year now. My blog post when I bought the new bike ended by saying: I haven’t been on a bike for about 12 years and probably haven’t ridden one in anger for about 15, so it will no doubt be a shock to the system, but the...

Windsurf Demo at Aberdovey 0

Windsurf Demo at Aberdovey

Another weekend has gone and as usual we manged to keep ourselves amused here in West Wales. Saturday morning was spent doing chores and then collecting firewood on the beach. The wind picked up in the afternoon and Steve arrived so I headed off to the beach with him and went windsurfing in fairly standard...

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Fungi Photos and Identification

Not wanting to be outdone by Morgan’s photography from our recent fungi foray here are my photographic efforts. I’d like to be able to identify the various fungi too, but I’m not to hot when it comes to fungi identification so if anyone knows what they are then post a comment and let me know....

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Photography by Morgan

We had a lovely sunny autumnal day yesterday so Morgan and I headed off to the woods at Ynyshir overlooking the Dyfi Estuary on a ‘Fungi Foray’. I’m not too good with fungi identification so the plan was to take some photos of them rather than to collect them. Morgan had Anna’s digital compact camera....

Facilities at Llandegla MTB cente 0

Facilities at Llandegla MTB cente

I met Steve on Saturday and went for a mountain bike ride at Llandegla in North Wales. This was my second time around the trail. We took it relatively easy and had a good time albeit with one or two sketchy moments and a crash for Steve. (Follow link above for full report). Afterwards we...

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F1 Anna

Sorry Anna, but I couldn’t resist posting this as it makes me giggle every time I see it…. Watch out Lewis Hamilton, she’s after your job!!

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Wind Resistant Plants?

So much for my wind resistant plants!! All had been going well and the new pergola was looking lovely with a very luxurious growth of Polygonum and Solanum that I had planted in June. In fact we had been surprised by the growth which was of course due in part by the warm, wet and...