Pembrokeshire Coastal Path Day 6

Marloes to Marloes
Distance 16 miles
Ascent 430m
Weather Misty, drizzle alternating light and heavy
Tailgating incidents 1
Wet things: feet, legs, the sea, the sky
Sedge warbler, dunnock, stonechats, little toad, oystercatcher

After purchasing lunch from the village store in Marloes we walked along the lane down to Dale, rejoining the Coastal Path along the way. It had rained during the night, leaving us with light drizzle and a mist that didn't clear all day. There weren't many views.

The rain had also made the tall grasses wet and fall over the path, resulting in wet legs coated in grass seeds. I forgot to take my hayfever allergy tablet this morning and even though I was wearing long trousers my legs are now delightfully red and blotchy. As is our way, once our legs were nicely soaked through we decided to put our waterproof trousers on.  At least we didn't need to stop and wring our socks out, as we saw other people doing.

As mentioned, there weren't many views, we could hear the sea to our left and the paths were lined with flowers and went by entertainingly named places like The Vomit and Vomit Point. This was just before Frenchman's Bay. We also walked around Castlebeach Bay, Watwick Bay, Mill Bay, Welshman's Bay, Westdale Bay, Watery Bay (where the water was mostly in our shoes) and Deadman's Bay.

There was a sign commemorating where Henry the Seventh landed in Wales before he won the War of the Roses and started the Tudor Dynasty.

The mists cleared briefly around midday and I'd hoped that the afternoon would brighten up, the skylarks sang and a few bees emerged. Then it unbrightened up.   Red Cliff was indeed very red, and we didn't see any raggles on Raggle Rocks, which was very disappointing. But there was a cormorant.

We had a late lunch on a bench at Martin's Haven, just as one of the boats was returning from Skomer and we had puffin envy. We walked along the cliff tops back to Marloes, where we are staying a second night. Tomorrow we are going to Broad Haven via a place called Falling Cliff. Hopefully it won't.