Some photos from Oxwich Bay, south Wales - 'the most beautiful beach in Britain'

[editor]

I've just posted up some updated photos from our trip to the lovely Oxwich Bay on the Gower a few years back.

I'd love to be there right now in this weather!

Anyone else been to this lovely beach? ANd maybe jumped off some sand dunes!

http://www.urban75.org/blog/beach-walking-and-dune-jumping-at-oxwich-bay-gower-south-wales/

 

[100% masahiko]

That's my favourite place in Swansea/ Gower.
I love going down there with the dog, walk around the sand dunes, touch the horses etc.
When I was young, a whole bunch of us would start a fire, drink, camp and stay out the night.
It's a truly magical place.

I'll see if I can dig some pics up...

 

[Belushi]

Used to go there every summer when I was a kid, and Caswell Bay, my favourite places in Wales.

 

[past caring]

Every summer when I was a kid - camped at Nicholaston farm and walked down through the woods, which are also beautiful. Favourite bit is the bay between Little Tor and Great Tor (the one in your photo). There's a huge upright slab of rock at the end of Great Tor - the triangular shaped bit that you can just make out in your photo - and you can walk behind this to a brilliant deep rock pool that has all kinds of sea creatures in it.

Think as twelve or thirteen year old I also saw my first pair of "real-life" bare breasts on that beach too.

I have been meaning for ages to take the girlfriend there camping - cheers for reminding me I need to sort this!

 

[trampie]

Most beautiful beach in Britain......hmm, very nice indeed but some would say Rhossili and Three Cliffs were better and they are both on the Gower as well.

 

[editor]

Most beautiful beach in Britain......hmm, very nice indeed but some would say Rhossili and Three Cliffs were better and they are both on the Gower as well.

Well, that and Barry Island.

 

[Gavin Bl]

All fab beaches... Cardiffians who haven't been to Southerndown, should get down there too - takes no time at all down the M4, just south of Bridgend.

 

[100% masahiko]

Didn't a man get decapitated on one of the rides in Barry Island (some 20 years ago)?
Or was that a dream?

 

[trampie]

Rhossili has the award of the best beach in Britain, Rhossili secured a huge 47% of the vote, the second best beach in Britain Tresco in the Isles of Scilly trailed in with 19% of the vote.

Rhossili was voted 11th out of the Worlds top 50 best views, {Angel falls, Grand Canyon, Taj Mahal etc all in it}, Three Cliffs was voted Britains best beach in 2006, Rhossili also made it on to the competition's shortlist of four, alongside the Isle of Harris in the Outer Hebrides and Bamburgh Beach in Northumberland.

Have you noticed how painters are always painting Three Cliffs.

 

[trampie]

I hope 'editor' didnt miss the chance to photograph two of the most beautiful beaches in the world for the sake of a few miles.

 

[editor]

I hope 'editor' didnt miss the chance to photograph two of the most beautiful beaches in the world for the sake of a few miles.

'Editor' was out for few hours in the sun and not embarking on some sort of challenge to fit in as many beaches as possible.

 

[100% masahiko]

Have you noticed how painters are always painting Three Cliffs.

Yep, my first family home had a picture of 3 cliffs.

As for Rhosilli, beware of the tides at Worms Head.
My mate died there whilst camping - they can turn quick.

 

[trampie]

'Editor' was out for few hours in the sun and not embarking on some sort of challenge to fit in as many beaches as possible.

So you did cock up then.

 

[trampie]

Yep, my first family home had a picture of 3 cliffs.

As for Rhosilli, beware of the tides at Worms Head.
My mate died there whilst camping - they can turn quick.

Oh bloody hell thats terrible, was your mate from South London or more of a local ?, you can get cut off on Worms head and on the beach at Three Cliffs.

 

[editor]

So you did cock up then.

what are you gibbering on about?

 

[Belushi]

So you did cock up then.

Stop being such a dick on here trampie, you're an embarrassment to the valleys.

 

[trampie]

Why photograph Oxwich and claim its the most beautiful beach in Britain when more popular choices for such an accolade are just around the corner.
To be honest they are all nice beaches, try Aberavon the next time you are in the area 'editor', and possibly Sker and Morfa as well.

 

[100% masahiko]

Oh bloody hell thats terrible, was your mate from South London or more of a local ?, you can get cut off on Worms head and on the beach at Three Cliffs.

Yeah, I knew him from the penllergaer area.
Use to hang out with him when I was a school-kid, around the Quadrant and all that.
Then bumped into him again when I went to Gorseinon College.
Leaving Swansea for London, and then only be told when visiting that he died.
Pretty shit.

Article is still on BBC.

Enough of that downer.
It's a beautiful place still

 

[ginger_syn]

I've just posted up some updated photos from our trip to the lovely Oxwich Bay on the Gower a few years back.

I'd love to be there right now in this weather!

Anyone else been to this lovely beach? ANd maybe jumped off some sand dunes!

http://www.urban75.org/blog/beach-walking-and-dune-jumping-at-oxwich-bay-gower-south-wales/

camped there for 3 days alone a few years ago, it was the most peaceful time of my life, well once I found my tent after a hour of looking.

 

[gentlegreen]

I spent a few hours swimming there in 2009 - I prefer llangennith for those sorts of activities though.

My SIL doesn't like going far from the shops, and I was sort of keeping an eye on their kids, so I didn't get to see the other end of the beach...

I remember there being a hotel with a wedding reception at the "shop end" set in spectacularly green and lush vegetation.

 

[editor]

Why photograph Oxwich and claim its the most beautiful beach in Britain when more popular choices for such an accolade are just around the corner.

Christ, you're irritating.

Did you not bother reading the linked article? If you had you would realise that it's not me claiming that it was "the most beautiful beach in Britain," but Travel Mag who reviewed a thousand beaches around the world in 2007.

Now please STFU and stop disrupting this thread with your inane, irrelevant drivel. Last warning.

 

[spacemonkey]

Why photograph Oxwich and claim its the most beautiful beach in Britain when more popular choices for such an accolade are just around the corner.
To be honest they are all nice beaches, try Aberavon the next time you are in the area 'editor', and possibly Sker and Morfa as well.

....the fuck is this chump?

On topic, I love the Gower. Went down to Three Cliffs a couple of weeks ago by myself, I have to constantly remind myself it's on my doorstep.

 

[editor]

We used to go to Llangennith/Llangenydd a lot when we were kids. 'Tis lovely there.

 

[trampie]

Christ, you're irritating.

Did you not bother reading the linked article? If you had you would realise that it's not me claiming that it was "the most beautiful beach in Britain," but Travel Mag who reviewed a thousand beaches around the world in 2007.

Now please STFU and stop disrupting this thread with your inane, irrelevant drivel. Last warning.

No offence 'editor' im new here and you seemed to attack me on Cardiff/Swansea football threads, and a political one, so I took the opportunity to have a little pop at you as i thought that this is the way the site is, sorry about that, im a gentleman really.
Nice photo's you take, is that Barry, Porthcawl and now Oxwich that I have recently seen ?
Is it a hobby or do you do this sort of thing for a living ?

 

[editor]

No offence 'editor' im new here and you seemed to attack me on Cardiff/Swansea football threads, and a political one, so I took the opportunity to have a little pop at you as i thought that this is the way the site is, sorry about that, im a gentleman really.

It's rightly considered extremely bad form to launch into unprovoked attacks on posters by dredging up irrelevant spats in unrelated threads such as this. Don't do it again, please.

Is it a hobby or do you do this sort of thing for a living ?

Semi pro.

 

[trampie]

Have you taken any shots of Carreg Cennen 'editor' ?

 

[editor]

Have you taken any shots of Carreg Cennen 'editor' ?

No. Why do you keep writing my user name as 'editor', btw?

 

[trampie]

No. Why do you keep writing my user name as 'editor', btw?

Thats your username isnt it ?, was going to ask what btw means but i think i have just worked it out, text speak is it mun, cool.
I will leave you alone as you would have answered if you had wanted too.

 

[trampie]

Not really a beach person myself but i wouldnt say Gower beaches are amongst the best in Britain i would say they are amongst the best in the world.
{Been to Malibu, Miami, Bondi ect as well as more secluded jobs and the Gower beaches beats the lot of them that i have seen}

 

[ddraig]

Thats your username isnt it ?, was going to ask what btw means but i think i have just worked it out, text speak is it mun, cool.
I will leave you alone as you would have answered if you had wanted too.

how is it text speak you weirdo?