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Category: Wales

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Play / Wales / Weather

St. Davids Day Sail

I’ve been pretty busy with website design work lately and haven’t had much time to get out and play, but I couldn’t wait any longer and yesterday and today were windy so I just had to go out for a sail. I’m glad I did as the sun was shining too so I had a...

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Geocaching / Wales / Website Design

A wet Monday Afternoon in Wales

I’m quite busy work-wise at the moment and for some reason couldn’t sleep last night so I got up and started work at 3am. I stopped at 7am and then worked again from 8am until midday, which by my reckoning makes a full 8 hour day… I therefore decided to treat myself to an afternoon...

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Geocaching / Wales

Geocaching outing in Wales

We had the first outing of aber-cachers yesterday. Me Anna and Morgan (forcesofnature) and Dave and Sarah (IdleRocks) headed off from Ynyslas, filled up with diesel in Aberystwyth then headed south to Aberaeron where we met up with Tinkerbell, Lesley (Red Kite) and Dan and Vanya (The Dancing Samurai’s). The first cache of the day...

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Geocaching / Play / Wales

Fun Geocache First to Find

I found Red Kite’s mad dash to get First to Find (FTF) on a new geocache in Aberystwyth quite amusing last night. Aber-cachers was quite busy which is good and there were a few people online posting in the forums, when we discovered that a brand new cache called ‘Off Yer Trolley’ hidden by The...

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Play / Wales

Surf Competition Borth, Wales

Today was the day of the 2007 Borth Masters surf contest, and the Gods were on our side. The sun came out, plenty of people turned up and best of all the surf was ‘going off’. Some of the biggest cleanest surf I’ve seen at the lifeboat station in Borth for a long time. I...

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Snow and Surf in Wales

The snow arrived as promised. It was pretty wild here this morning with blizzard conditions, but Morgan and I went out to play in it anyway… I’ll post some photos of that later. I then did some work and headed off to the hills with Sarah (from next door) around lunch time. We went to...

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Wales / Weather

Record Low ‘Feels Like’ Temperature

It was pretty cold this morning, and although the actual temperature only dropped to -4.8ºC, the ‘Feels Like Temperature’ which is calculated by taking into account the actual temperature, the humidity and the wind strength reached an all time low of -11.2ºC at 7.55am… That could be be beaten tomorrow though! The image is a...

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Snow on the way for Wales.

Things are getting a little colder, -4.8ºC here last night and it looks as though there is some significant snow on the way overnight tonight and into tomorrow morning. The Borth and Ynyslas live weather station has been displaying its little ‘snow is on the way icon’ since last night. It always amazes me how...

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Geocaching / Play / Wales

Geocaching Photos – Wales

Dave Sarah and I had a good day out and a nice long walk yesterday. Two caches: Tarren Memorial Llaeron Earth Is It? 14 miles, lots of hills and some amazing views. As usual the photos don’t do justice. Click here for a full report of our day geocaching in Wales. We also found a...