Good Evening!
So, on Wednesday, 20th August it was my 24th birthday! Alfie took me away to Pembrokeshire for our first ever camping trip together, which I was super excited about. For my main present he booked a whale & dolphin spotting boat trip for the morning after my birthday. Unfortunately, on the Thursday morning the wind was too strong for the boat trip. We re-organised it for the Friday morning, but again, the wind was again not on our side so we were unable to go on the boat. We were both really gutted about it. Alfie has been before on that trip, but he wanted to go with me. So we both had sad faces, however he is going to organise something else as my present instead.
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That aside, I had an extremely lovely time! Firstly, I got to spend my birthday with Alfie, which I'm extremely grateful for. As I get older, birthday's aren't the same anymore. Plus my parents live in North Wales, so it's not so simple to see them! We'll both be going to the Lake District next week with them for a late birthday trip so it's not all bad! Secondly, I got to go camping. I grew up camping as my parents were scout leaders. The first time I went camping, I wasn't even a year old! I was brought up spending time with the scouts in different areas of Wales/England and I absolutely loved to camp. In rain or shine, it was one of my favourite things. So it's literally been years since I've done it..so to camp on my birthday was such a lovely feeling. Thirdly, the weather was truly on our side. Minus the horrendous wind conditions, spoiling the boat trip, we still got to go on long walks without any weather problems. My forehead did burn quite a bit (now sporting some very attractive peeling!) and the wind on the walks meant I had to go the whole way with my hood up as it was freezing. The sun did shine about 90% of the time!
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We first got an early train to Haverfordwest from Cardiff, and then a bus to St David's, which by the way is such a cute little city (I thought it was a town, but it has a Cathedral! Who even knew!). Then from there we took another bus to White Sands, where we took a little pit stop. From there it was about a 2 & 1/2 mile walk to St Justinian where we were set up our tent. To our dismay, when we turned the corner into St Justinian, right in front of the camp site was a mighty big crane! Not cool! They were doing some work by the boat area, but it wasn't great for views. We managed to get a spot that didn't interfere too much with the crane. It was a lovely little camp site, even had a place with showers & toilets! So clean as well! I didn't bother showering as I didn't want to catch a cold with the wet hair etc. However lovely facilities! I recommend it muchly.
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As we couldn't go on the boat the next day, we walked to St David's in the morning for some lunch and then caught a little bus to Pontyclais. Again, such a lovely little area. From there we took a 5 mile walk along the coastal path back to our camp site. Thats where these photo's are from!
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All in all, I absolutely loved my camping trip & I'm super lucky to have Alfie take me there.
I was super exhausted at times which made for a grumpy & snappy girlfriend - but the fact that I was so comforted and happy being outside and with the outside & natural world, those feelings took over.
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Here are some of my favourite photo's I took from the trip and I'll also be putting up a project on my behance profile & here's some of my Instagram posts from the last couple of days.
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Hope you enjoy these photo's & look here if you want to head to the same place :)
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We also became super seal watchers :) we kept seeing their little heads popping out of the water in some remote areas, and I was so excited about it! Alfie got some shots of them as he had a longer lens so I hope they've turned out ok! Love those little dog faces!
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Night night everyone,
elfums x
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