A coastal walk.

Teasel's growing along the embankment.

Miss L and I went for a walk along the old coastal road between Newport & Cardiff today known locally as 'The Lighthouse'. The lighthouse is still there, disused now, and is well known as Bed & Breakfast accommodation. It's has recently been featured in the television programme 'The Hotel Inspector'.

Yellowy-orange Lichen growing on the rocks.

All nature is there on this coastal walk, and unfortunately so is a fair amount of rubbish. Why don't people take their rubbish home?

Driftwood - March 2009

Further evidence of vandalism was this superb piece of driftwood taken earlier in the year and photographed by me extensively last year (2008). Today it's gone. All that was left was some pieces of hacked up driftwood. It's presence was distinctive on the skyline, now it is as if it was never there.

....... as if it had never been - August 2009.

The sun came out for a while just as we were leaving, but even though I have pointed out the not so good things about the area, it is still a lovely place to walk. Miss L and I called into the Lighthouse Inn for a drink before heading back to the car. Although the day was more akin to a late April dull day, rather that a mid August afternoon, we enjoyed the ruggedness of the area and enjoyed our walk.

The West Usk Lighthouse Bed & Breakfast.