Category: Wales

The Estuary Crossing from Aberdovey 1

Estuary Adventure

I had a fun little estuary adventure on Wednesday. My day started with an early morning swim from South beach in Aberystwyth out around Castle Point and back onto North beach with Graham, Helen, Richard, Mike and Victoria. I do think I picked the wrong activity though because as I left the house to drive...

Cwm Rheidol 0

Heatwave!

It may only have been 1 day so far with temperatures in the high 20’s but that constitutes a heatwave in these parts! 27.4ºC was the maximum recorded here yesterday, but you only had to go about a mile inland and it was up into the low 30’s. A perfect day for some pressure washing...

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Llywngwril Troll

Look what I spotted on my ride on Sunday morning – yep, it’s a giant knitted troll climbing up from under the bridge in Llwyngwril!

Me Swimming 0

Morning Sea Swim

I usually have a 7:15am morning swim in the pool at the University before work on a Thursday. But being unable to run means that I have no races planned, no real need to ‘train’ and therefore less motivation than usual, so when I saw that Larry was organising a 6:30am sea swim in Aberystwyth...

Ceredigion Coast 0

Stand-up-Paddleboarding from Borth

Another lovely summer’s day here and although I have work to do in both the garden and the new shed I decided that not all sunny days should be spent doing outside chores and opted for some ‘recreation’ instead. After a short 25 mile bike ride I headed into Borth with my Stand-up-Paddleboard. I’d packed...

Spider Crab 0

Spider Crabs

Whilst on an open water swim session on Monday here at Ynyslas the water was clearer than usual so I was actually able to see the seabed. I was also able to see lots of large Spider Crabs roaming around out there. The larger ones seemed to be wandering around on the sand on their...

Bike Ride 1

Not Such a Nice Day For a Bike Ride

Seeing as my last post here was raving about what a nice day it had been for a bike ride, I thought I’d balance thew world with a quick post about yesterdays bike ride. Needless to say, it was a very wet and miserable one! No photos and nothing to rave about, just some more miles...

Welsh Sunshine 1

Nice Day for a Bike Ride

I can’t run at the moment due to a case of Plantar Fasciitis, so my usual run, swim and bacon sandwich on a Sunday morning has been replaced with a swim, bacon sandwich and a ride instead. It’s not doing much for my running but it does give me an opportunity to do a longer...

Geocache Logs from Wild Wales 1

Geocache Logs from Wild Wales

[dropcap]I[/dropcap]t’s always nice to get people visiting geocaches that you’ve hidden, and even better when they write nice things in the logs.[pullquote-right]”Definitely getting a favourite point. Thanks for a smashing cache.”[/pullquote-right]The best are those caches that are rarely visited, but that you know are something special. This means that when people do get around to making...