Hansjörg Neth > Gower, Southerndown, Ogmore (Wales, UK)

Sea & Coast, South Wales

Wales:
— Cardiff
— Caerphilly
— Brecon Beacons
— Gregynog
— Sea & Coast

Gower Peninsula | Southerndown & Ogmore

The spectacular landscape and beaches of the Gower peninsula spreads to the West of Swansea, "an ugly, lovely town, crawling, sprawling by the side of a long and splendid curving shore" (Dylan Thomas). Detailed and insightful background information is available at www.explore-gower.co.uk. Information on specific beaches, surf conditions and daily tide times can be found at this BBC Wales site. A useful street map is available here.

Southerndown & Ogmore

Southerndown (Dunraven Bay) and Ogmore-by-Sea are located about 20 miles to the West of Cardiff, South of Bridgend and South East of the industrial town of Porthcawl. As the Welsh coast features the world's second highest tidal range (with up to 16m difference between high and low tides) the sea reaches the cliffs at high tide, but opens vast sandy and rocky beaches at low tide. Information on specific beaches and daily tide times can be found at this BBC Wales site, a street map is available here. Check out Rob Hartill's site for additional (and very nice) pictures of the same area.

Please note:

Click on a thumbnail to see a larger version. All pictures were taken between 09/2001 and 06/2002, and have been reduced to be viewed at a 1024x768 screen resolution. Please contact me if you wish to receive a higher quality of a photograph [©Hansjörg Neth, 2002].
— More recent pictures of the same region can be found on the image of the day >> and WWWales panoramae >> pages of this site.

hanz@neth.de; 06/2002