Three Cliffs Bay

A short series from a short walk around one of my favourite places in the Gower, Wales.

Whiteford Beach: The Gower.

A short series from a very long stretch of Welsh beach.

Collaboration x Millican ' Good For Life'

For a day of adventuring, Smith is perfect, and I’ve grown very fond it living on my back - not that I would notice it being there most of the time. As well as being very comfy to wear, it's tough too. 

My Smith has taken everything that's been thrown at it; from the worst of heavy and ice cold highland rain to the ash and dust of an ancient volcano in Greece - which I’m sure is still marked into the canvas. I really love objects that look better as they age, and with Smith it’s certainly the case.

My fondest memory has to be when I took my Smith the Roll Pack on an epic road trip around the wild Scottish coastline. After a long day of photography and driving, at night, we made our way to the beach at John O’Groats where you could see out to the lighthouses on Orkney. In anticipation, I looked out and up to the sky for what would be one of the most beautiful things I'll ever see - darkness exploding in colour. Green jets rose endlessly into space and glowing pinks and purples dance at the fringes across the sky.

Smith is my always primary daypack choice and it's been great to see more and more of them around the city over the last couple of years - much cleaner and fresher than my Smith, they are waiting for memories to be etched in their canvas.

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Weekend Wanders x The Geology of Ogmore By Sea

Here’s a small photo set from a recent weekend wandering around Ogmore-by-Sea, a beautiful stretch of coastline steeped in Geological history. Ogmore is a very popular place, especially on weekends when you can expect to encounter every dog walker from within a 10 mile radius.

 I used to visit these characteristically stepped limestone beds while I was studying Geology. The geology exposed along the sea front is fascinating. The Limestone is loaded with fossils from an ancient 350 million year old coral reef, when the UK was part of a string of tropical islands surrounded by warm shallow seas, just below the equator. The fossils are preserved in great detail and are incredibly easy to find once you get your eye in. Above the Limestone you can find the remains of violent flash flood which was deposited when the country was part of a huge desert. At this time the first dinosaurs were starting to spread around the globe around 200 million years ago. 

The pebble beaches here are littered with rocks that shouldn’t really be there, you can easily pick up a rock from Scotland, the North Sea or even Arctic Norway. During the last Ice Age glaciers spreading from the Arctic dumped the rocks they had been carrying for thousands of years on the beaches as the ice slowly retreated.

Geology provides a fascinating insight and perspective. A tiny bit of knowledge can transport you back millions years to different worlds. Whenever I visit Ogmore and I watch the waves washing along the limestone shore, I imagine that if I stood in exactly the same place 350 million years ago, I might well have been standing on the beach of an ancient and alien tropical island, with the sea filled with strange and amazing creatures.