Tenby on the west coast of Wales

I have lost track of days and dates - The photo says 4th of July, so I'm happy to go with that!

We wanted to see some of the coastline in Wales and the locals recommended Tenby. This is our first sighting of the beach at Tenby. It was a nice sandy beach in a large sheltered harbour - you can see the heads in the distance here. It didn't seem like a surf beach. The nature of the water reminded me of Trial Bay.

After we made the trek down, we continued our tradition of putting our feet in whatever oceans and seas we go to. Although we had seen the Atlantic before, we hadn't put our feet in until now.

This photo (below) is looking back to the town from the beach. Yes - more #$%^&* steps and climbing. I must say, though, that the view was great once we got up there.............

Although this picture is way too dark, the island you can see here is quite close to the mainland and is basically a derelict fort that was, we were informed by a very friendly local lady, for protection from the French.

The same lady also taught us that when there's and 'LL' at the beginning of a welsh word it means that it was a place where there was a Christian church. She also taught Ray how to pronounce the sound of the 'LL' - the only comparison I can make is that it's like clearing a fly from the back of your throat! This lovely lady, whose name, I'm sorry to say, I didn't get, also told us that 'DD' at the end of a word actually makes a 'th' sound and that the reason it took me so long to find Caernarfon in the map index is because the 'f'' is pronounced like a 'v', but there is no 'v' in the Welsh alphabet (I think that's what she meant anyway).

Anyway - after all that chatting on the clifftop we headed back through the wall and into the town for a little wander around.

A look around and a load of washing later we headed out where we probably should have some in
(less cliffs and stairs maybe...) and then off to see Saint David's via the coast road.