Today we went to Port Eynon, further along the coast from Swansea in the convoluted direction of Tenby and St Davids. I’m enjoying these seaside excursions.
On the way we called in at Oxwich Bay, which has superb views but is sadly lacking in car parking facilities. Nowhere to park? Can’t go there.
Port Eynon however is much more visitor friendly. We parked, walked a good way along the bay and then came back to ‘The Admiral’s Table’ for lunch.
Not a bad day out at all. There will be more tomorrow, I hope, but today I’ll just post a photo of Graham enjoying a lugworm hunt:
Tormenting lugworms
What is a lugworm, and why would you want to torment it?
Ok, I just went out and googled lugworm. eeewwww yuck! I’m glad I’ve never seen one of those up close. YUCK!
Not much of a torment. If you press your foot close to a lugworm hole (the beastie is way, way down, out of harm’s way) then it spits water in the most engaging way.
I’d really, really love to live close to the coast…!!!
There is a small row of cottages right on the tideline, Brigitte. I said I’d love to live there, with the sound of the sea an eternal background. Graham said that I am nuts.
Well now I also have to go google lugworm.
“A small row of cottages on the tideline, I’d love to live there”
Seems like I’ve heard this before…one day I bet you just end up there
It sounds like my desire…
Oh – me too! Living in a small row of cottages on the tideline. Sounds ideal. I could spend my days walking quietly on the beach – avoiding lugworms…
It does sound blissful…
Interesting. I’d never heard of a lugworm, although apparently there are some lugworm varieties also found on this side of the Atlantic. (Of course, although I live near the coast now, I grew up ninety miles upstream from NY City, on the Hudson River, and spent a quarter century or so living even further into upstate New York, so I’m not exactly an expert on the ocean shore.) Still, I love a walk along the beach any time of year.
Thanks for taking us along on your day-trip. It sounds like you and Graham had an interesting and happy time.
I’ve seen castings like that on Maine beaches, but didn’t know what made them, other than “sandworms.” Now I also have a new biological reference tool, ARKive. Thank you for spurring my curiosity, John!
Hugs from Corea, ~ Sil
Now that I’ve read your notes, I know what a lugworm is. Thank you. LOL
I agree with you. Now that we have moved one mile up from the beach, I so miss the roar of the surf that was a part of my world since 1966.
I used to holiday at Tenby as a child, and camped near St. Davids many times as a teenager.
Beautiful part of the world; but I kept well away from the lugworms. Yuck.