We've been on vacation in South West Wales this week, and had a lovely walk along the Pembroke Coastal path above Porthgain.
It was a stunning day, although rather windy. The views along the coast and out to sea were stunning.
Pembrokeshire is famous for its coastline, and we have not been disappointed at all. Its quite a rocky coastline, and the views all along have been great, with fantastic sea inlets, caves, sea stacks and the like.
The walk above Porthgain was quite interesting as it took us to an old brickworks which was established around 1850.
The brickworks is right on the clifftop overlooking the sea, and you can see the old quarry where I guess they got their material for making the bricks.
It was nice to explore the old buildings and they made for some nice photos - the blue skies were also helping !
The bricks would have been shipped out by sea as the road network here even today is not great, never mind 170 years ago ! Above you can see one of the markers on the cliff top that helped seafarers find the port.
And above is the marker for the other side of the inlet. One is square shaped while the other is round, and painted bright white.
We also passed this intriguing slate stack feature along the way - with a hole through - no idea what this might have been for.
The brickworks are long since closed now. Above you can see grey tanking on one part of the ruins, which was probably a water tank. Noting it is quite remote where this is, so they would have had to have been self contained, as its about a mile away from the port or anything else.
The seaviews were stunning throughout the walk. This dug out V-shape was just below the brickworks and led to a drop into the sea. Its a bit weird, but I wonder if they used it for dumping waste material from the quarry.
We enjoyed the walk, even if we were blown to bits by the wind - the views were just awesome.
There were also a lot of sheep on the walk - you can see a few to the right there sheltering from the wind. Its lambing season and these all looked like they hadnt given birth yet, so we were very careful to give them space and keep our distance from them.
We loved the walk - and will be taking in more parts of the coastal path on our remaining few days in the area. Plus its great to get some exercise while we are on vacation !
