Wales Holiday - May 2007 - Around Pembroke

These shots are from the Pembroke area - just over the toll bridge at Milford Haven......

Milford Haven (an RAF Short Sunderland Flying Boat Base in W.W.II) and the twin oil refineries - Texaco to the left, Gulf (though now owned by Petroplus) to the right.....

The two Georges with a cannon at Milford.....

One of umpteen castles in the area - Pembroke Castle.....

Just out of Pembroke is yet another castle - Carew. This castle is a strange one in that it has been added to by each of its new owners every time it changed hands - and also the small matter of getting a right hiding during the civil war.

The inner walls with some lovely lens flair....

Me inside the Elizabethan wing.

Myself and Em in the battlements.....

Out towards the coast, Stack Rocks still look as impressive as when I first saw them circa 1980. It is a very bad idea to try and get any closer than this. Nowadays we don't have to wait for NATO tanks to stop shooting  to go and see them either (the whole area was swallowed up by Castlemartin firing range just after the war but this fell into disuse after the end of the cold war).

Green Bridge of Wales, just a little bit further down from the stacks.

Just a little reminder that the MOD still consider all of this to be their property.

Relics of the old Castlemartin Range - Centurion and Conqueror tanks at Castlemartin Camp.

Just down the coast from Stack Rocks is the other Broadhaven - now known as Broadhaven South so people do not get confused. For years this beach did not have an agreed upon name (either informally known as Bosherston or Broadhaven) and did not even appear on any maps. Thus, it was a very well kept secret. I spent many an afternoon here as a nipper - usually getting dumped out of my dinghy by the waves that seemed to be bigger than anywhere else in South Wales. On the day we visited there was a few dog walkers and a volleyball match on - quite a lot of legroom on this beach.

Church Rock out in the bay at Broadhaven South. This rock's size makes it subject to a strange optical illusion - when viewed from the beach it seems to sit in the centre of the bay but if you look on the previous picture it clearly sits on the left of the bay - and it all but vanishes at high tide. Weird.

The impressive rock on the West of the bay - this has a cave running through it - it is a very bad idea indeed to go in it when the tide is coming in. The high tide mark on the rock lets you know just how high the tidal range is here. Best to stay awake when you are making those sandcastles.

Again, just round the corner from Broadhaven South. Emma at St Govan's.

The chapel that gives the area its name - right down by the water. Legend states that St Govan hid from pirates in this rock and the imprint of his ribs are still picked out in the corner of the chapel. Emma thought this place to be a bit spooky and requested that we leave forthwith. I agreed.

The cliffs around St Govans.

Another military legacy around St Govans - old tramway serving some old gun emplacements.

One of the old gun emplacements.

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