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Walk: SOC 03

Location: Rhossilli Beach, Gower

Directions: Let Sat nav get you to Rhossilli, then park up in the large car park above the beach.

Find your way down steep footpath to the beach. Distance (miles): 39.4

Time (hours): 1.15

Length of Walk: 3 hours if you decide to walk the entire length of the beach and back Dates Walked: 25/04/2008, 23/06/2008, 03/08/2008, 10/04/2009, 11/08/2009,

Parking: £2.00 or £2.50

Pop in to: Rhossilli has a hotel overlooking the bay. Also walks around the cliffs overlooking

Worms Head.

Description: Amazing large sandy beach popular with surfers and hang gliders.

There is a popular camp site half way along with a café inland a bit (next to the camp site).

At low tide you can walk for some distance it seems to get to the sea.

Nice firm sand, prammable, and a long walk to the far end, where there is a small more

private beach. Then a forever walk back. Exhausting for dogs.

If you do not fancy the beach, turn left out of the car park and instead explore all the

paths above the beach, curing around the peninsula and overlooking Worms Head. Lots

of rather colourful snazzy looking snails on the paths of this walk (as a child I used to collect the yellow and black striped and the orange and black striped snails so this

would have been a dream walk for me at age 7).

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Photos taken on 25/04/2008:

This walk starts from the campsite at „Halfway‟ point. You can park for free down below the campsite.

This is a massive beach with hardly anyone on it – maybe a few people fishing but otherwise no one this end

This is the opposite end to Rhossilli and gets pretty deserted.

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Miles and miles of sands, with, unlike Swansea Bay, not a boggy or muddy bit anywhere on its 3 mile length.

Deserted sandy beaches – a dream and completely undiscovered by the majority of the population of Britain.

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These rocky outcrops are at the end of Rhossili Bay and lead on to another, smaller, secluded and very private

little beach.

Photos taken on 23/06/2008:

This bay is also popular with surfers and with kite flying enthusiasts. The occasional fisherman, sat in a chair with their long line stretching out into the sea, suggest there is some fishing to be enjoyed here as well.

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The land in picture on right is really an island cum peninsula, which you can also walk around, crossing over at

low tide. I have never found the tide high enough to cut this area off.

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Route to little private bay at the far end of the Bay The little private bay at the end – shown below.

Right hand picture looks down on to the private bay from the high ground on the peninsula.

There is a small peninsula, cut off almost from the mainland, around which one can walk and enjoy the views of the bay all around, stretching for miles below (see pics on next page).

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Photos taken on 03/08/2008:

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Small cave in the middle

On top of the peninsula far end of Rhossilli bay

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Peninsula – far end of Rhossilli Bay.

Looking down from the peninsula at far end of Rhossilli bay.