The Gower Peninsula is about 70 Sq miles in size and sticks out from South Wales into the Bristol channel. It is classified as an 'Area of Outstanding National Beauty' within the UK and in fact was the first area to receive this designation in 1956. The weather took a turn for the better this past week and with a 'Proper British Summer' in swing (at least for a few days) we decided to take trip to the Gower.
As is often the case, I overplanned and had too many 'options' identified for the day - at least too many for a family with 4 young kids in a car on the first nice weekend in a while that also co-incided with the first weekend off school. (everyone was out and there was a lot of traffic) I am also not as adept as Kelly in planning car rides (snacks, in car entertainment) so unfortunately while the weather started off great, the atmosphere inside the car was stormy.
We drove through Swansea, and then toured through a small seaside village called Mumbles. From there we drove further down the peninsula and settled on going to a beach at Port Eynon Bay. It is one of 4 Blue Flag beaches (rating for quality beaches) on the Gower. We spent a good amount of time here having lunch, playing in the sand and water at very low tide. (see pictures below). A very good beach for kids as the car park is only about a minute walk to the beach.
Here is a video. Excuse my miss-pronouciation of 'Port EYnon (as in Eye).
From here, I wanted to go down and check out what many consider to be the crown Jewel beach of the Gower - Rhossili Bay. We found it, but due to the lateness of the day, and drive home we decided to skip actually going down to the beach on this trip. I definitely want to come back to this place again at some point.
Picture below is the view of Rhossili Bay. The second picture is the church that sits just above the bay, and overlooks it.
