The Glamorgan Heritage Coast

The stretch of the Glamorgan Heritage Coast between St. Donats and Ogmore is one of my favourite photographic locations. Rugged and beautifully shaped cliffs run for around 10 miles. They have a distinctive horizontal strata. Many years ago I used to rock climb here – some of the climbs would follow these strata, perhaps finishing at the top several hundred metres to one side of the start point. Also striking is the abundance of near spherical rocks underneath the cliffs.

Message cards

It is not often that I start a whole new range of cards, and even rarer that I put text in them. However, I have been asked on many occasions to do this, especially using the Welsh language. So here are a range of bilingual ‘message’ cards. The cards in this range are considerably larger than my greetings cards, they are A5 when folded.

The initial range is of eight cards. Five of these are Birthday cards, one a

Anglesey Coastal Path - Cemlyn Bay to Church Bay

Possibly the wildest section of the Anglesey Coastal Path is at the north west corner of the island, from Cemlyn Bay, round Carmel Head (Trwyn y Gader) to Church Bay (Porth Swtan). Ali and I spent an enjoyable day walking this in beautiful weather in May this year.

As the walk is about 8 miles and we did not want to walk back to our start point, we took a taxi from Church Bay to Cemlyn Bay. We would

2009 Calendars

The 2009 calendars have been out for a while now, but most of you do not think too much about them until late in the year. I have to ‘guess’ how many to print at the start of the year and have had to throw away more than I would choose in the past two years, which has been a rather painful experience! So this year I printed a bit less than previously.

I have already had a big run

New greetings cards

Amongst the five new greetings cards are three of wintry scenes. These cards are blank inside, but would be ideal as Christmas cards for those who do not feel the need of having a message printed inside.

Another new card is autumnal in colour and shows my favourite hidden waterfall – Ffrwd Fawr. I have given directions to this Mid Wales waterfall in a previous newsletter, but please feel free to contact me if any of you have an

The Children of Tien Shan

Many of you may remember that Abi (my daughter) and Ali (my wife) completed the 15 mountains in Wales over 3000 feet high in 24 hours last summer, on Abi's 16th birthday. The event raised £4500 for the Children of Tien Shan, a work with abandoned and abused children in Kyrgyzstan. Thank you again to the many of you who supported this either financially or in your thoughts and prayers.

I thought it would be good to give you an

Orkney

Our friends, Jen and Steve Bunning, have lived on the Orkney Isles for a few years now, and we were lucky enough to visit them this summer. In some ways it is a longer journey in getting to Orkney than to many European destinations. Once you get there, you feel as if you are in a different world. Trees hardly make an appearance there, but that is compensated by a tremendously varied coastline. There is also an abundance of ancient monuments, such as the Ring of Brodgar.

Tyrau Mawr - a little known viewpoint

Most of you will not have heard of Tyrau Mawr (otherwise known as Craig-las). You could consider it to be just an outlier of Cader Idris. However, it holds its own significant position on that huge wall that towers over the southern side of the Mawddach Estuary. I first discovered this as a viewpoint when crossing the whole of the Cader Idris range from east to west, a walk that I wrote about in a previous newsletter.

On the