Marloes to Broad Haven
Distance 10 miles
Ascent 300m
Weather warm and sunny
Days like yesterday make you appreciate days like today. It was warm and the sky was blue with fluffy clouds. Within half an hour of starting out along the path at Musselwick Sands we'd seen gannets diving, a peregrine perched on an overhanging rock and a kestrel hunting.
There were choughs on the cliff faces and lots of small birds, including pipits (rock and meadow), stonechats and a dunnock. The grass along the paths had been strimmed short so our legs stayed dry, even so Rob managed to get mud on his and I had some streaks of pollen. The flowers were blooming, thrift, cornflower, campion, tormantil, foxgloves and ox eye daisies. The insects were out in force.
At St Brides Haven there were a lot of people diving, or at least standing around in car parks in wetsuits.
Some oystercatchers and curlew were posing on the rocks and a buzzard nonchalantly ignoring the pestering of some gulls. We met a chap who warned us to watch out for adders (we didn't see any) and then told us a story about a man who shot a couple walking on the coastal path and also murdered some locals before setting their house on fire. Jolly.
We had lunch with a bee on a bench in a sunny spot in a small wood, which seemed to have fewer midges than the shade of the trees. There were a lot of insects and I got molested by a butterfly.
Arriving early in Broad Haven we left our bags at the b&b and went down to the beach for ice-creams and a paddle in the sea. The sea was quite cold. We are now sitting on the veranda listening to the test match.
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