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Swansea Ramblers Walk


Kenfig National Nature Reserve

30th October 2021

Leaders: Mike and Joanna Craddock




Mike and Joanna led us on a walk through the nature reserve.  Just as we started, a heavy shower of rain fell!  Reaching the beach, we turned east and stopped for lunch overlooking the place where the Mumbles Lifeboat came ashore after the disaster of 1947.  We then went inland, past the historic Sker House and across the golf course.  We made our way back through farmland.



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Photographs



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Leaders Mike and Joanna Craddock


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Rain hit us as soon as we started


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Rain didn't stop us


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Then the sun came out


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Dry but cold and windy


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Reached the beach


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Long stretch of beach


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Somebody had been re-arranging the stones!


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Heading east from the beach to the more rocky foreshore


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This marks the end of Swansea Bay


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The memorial plaque to the 1947 Mumbles Lifeboat Disaster


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The group have lunch in sight of the memorial


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Heading inland


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Sker House


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Sker House is a historic mansion


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Think it's raining in the channel!


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Mike tells us more about the walk before we cross the golf course


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More rain and more companions!


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Just a little rain


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Which just kept falling


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But we were not disheartened!


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Returned through farmland


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Too wet to go that way!


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Not far now - and it's stopped raining


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Nearly back


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Back at last and the rain has finished





Ordnance Survey map of the route walked
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All photographs Copyright  Andrew Morgan 2021
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