Beautiful quiet British beaches

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I last did that at Porth Neigwl, Llyn Peninsular. It was a warm day and, there's always a heavy swell there, it was bracing to say the least!

You mean "Hell's Mouth"? My daughter swam in there and was bitten by a weaver fish. I'd never heard of these tiny but vicious creatures until that day. An amzing landscape, but once bitten...

[Anna]

You mean "Hell's Mouth"? My daughter swam in there and was bitten by a weaver fish. I'd never heard of these tiny but vicious creatures until that day. An amzing landscape, but once bitten...

Yes, Hell's Mouth. The only place I was ever bitten by a weaver fish was in Italy, Viarregio I think as small child.
Look, you swim in the sea, you swim with the fishes, it's their world you are intruding into, sometimes you get nibbled or bitten. Foot spas are doing great business with certain fish eating nasty dry skin around your toes .... I think that's a bit gross and amounts to fish exploitation.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

You mean "Hell's Mouth"? My daughter swam in there and was bitten by a weaver fish. I'd never heard of these tiny but vicious creatures until that day. An amzing landscape, but once bitten...

Perhaps that's what Anna meant when she said there was "a heavy swell there"?

[ahinton]

As someone once said (can't now recall who it was):

Whenever I've been to a British beach
The wind and the squalls were vicious,
So never again will I visit one;
I'd much rather go to Mauritius.

A tad unfair to the best of them, methinks, but perfectly understandable nevertheless...

[Nick Armstrong]

there's always a heavy swell there

He answers to the name of Smiling Steve...

you swim in the sea, you swim with the fishes

Is anyone else suddenly a little bit afraid...?

[Padraig]

.... or just pottering around in rock pools, or collecting nice pebbles.

Near the tip of the Inishowen peninsula on the Lough Foyle shore a sheer rocky face has a natural doorway which leads to a small beach behind. The place is known as Port-a-Doris - the port of the door. The beach is composed totally of pebbles of various sizes and colours - for a pebble enthusiast, a veritable treasure chest. I was there relatively recently and the pebble count did not appear to have diminished in the slightest since I first discovered it more than sixty years ago.

http://www.andymcinroy.com/ir357.htm

ps Have you noticed how near the years are to tears?

[amateur51]

Near the tip of the Inishowen peninsula on the Lough Foyle shore a sheer rocky face has a natural doorway which leads to a small beach behind. The place is known as Port-a-Doris - the port of the door. The beach is composed totally of pebbles of various sizes and colours - for a pebble enthusiast, a veritable treasure chest. I was there relatively recently and the pebble count did not appear to have diminished in the slightest since I first discovered it more than sixty years ago.

http://www.andymcinroy.com/ir357.htm

ps Have you noticed how near the years are to tears?

Just one look at that pebbly beach made the soles of my spectacularly flat feet go into spasm, Padraig

[Padraig]

.....my spectacularly flat feet.....

Naturally, you wouldn't want to step on something sharp... accidentally.

[ahinton]

Most of my favourites have been mentioned, Cardigan Bay, Llyn Penisular and The Gower has some delights to offer as well.

Perhaps our member Richard Barrett might have something to say about the last of these; I've not yet visited there but have heard wonderful things about the entire area...

[Richard Tarleton]

There's a beach in Pembrokeshire which is regularly voted (by whom? travel writers, Lonely Planet etc.,) as one of the ten most beautiful beaches in the world. Nobody's mentioned it yet, and I'm not going to name it either.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

There's a beach in Pembrokeshire which is regularly voted (by whom? travel writers, Lonely Planet etc.,) as one of the ten most beautiful beaches in the world. Nobody's mentioned it yet, and I'm not going to name it either.

I don't know if it's Gerald of Wales' birth town - but that certainly fits your description.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Is anyone else suddenly a little bit afraid...?

She said "swims with the the fishes", Cali, not "sleeps" with 'em!

[Richard Tarleton]

I don't know if it's Gerald of Wales' birth town - but that certainly fits your description.

no....Gerald did visit on his travels though.....

[Nick Armstrong]

She said "swims with the the fishes", Cali, not "sleeps" with 'em!

I hear ya!

[Old Grumpy]

Oh, yes: Amble, Bamburgh sands, Seahouses (a bit busy in the High Season) - and the beach at the far side of Lindisfarne.

Misself and Mrs OG were on Alnmouth beach this afternoon - away from the car park, hardly anyone (and their dog) - fantastic.

OG