Sea Mist over Swansea Bay

Traffic Jams, Ice-cream and Beaches

Boat Hull Paintwork, Oystermouth

Oystermouth Castle

View Over Swansea Bay, Townhill

Spire, Mumbles Road

Swansea Bay Cycle Path

Verdis This Evening

Aberavon Beach

Being spoiled with another fantastic sunny evening, I decided to head to the nearby beach of Aberavon after work. It really is a great place to spend a couple of hours and the beach affords some stunning views over Swansea and the Mumbles headland:

The place is also great for families as it hosts some excellent facilities, including a great chipshop and ice-cream parlour. I really can't recommend the place highly enough.

Mumbles Pier

Absolutely gorgeous evening down in Swansea this evening. And with the tide fairly low, I thought I would take a wander beneath Mumbles Pier. Unfortunately, my iphone 4S really does not handle low lighting conditions very well but I did manage to squeeze 3 fairly acceptable pics from the thing to post here. I hope you like them.

A Brisk Dusky Stroll

After fortifying myself with a Verdis' sundae, I took a brisk, dusky, stroll around the Mumbles prom. Despite the sun having already set, evening colours were gorgeous and the clouds quite amazing. I also had an encounter with a very friendly robin and met an even more social cat down on the seafront. A great walk, up there with the best of 2016 so far:

Seagulls decorating a beautiful cloud-painted sky over Swansea Bay

Mumbles Pier

A very friendly Robin

Swansea Pier

Swansea Promenade at dusk

Swansea Bay

Fishing along the  Mumbles Promenade

Ending the evening's walk with a cwtch with a
very social cat along the seafront

A Verdi's Raspberry Sundae

I had a delicious raspberry sundae down in Verdis this evening. An utterly divine experience. The place was packed with cusomers, but I still managed to snag a window table overlooking Swansea Bay. Highly, highly recommended.

Mumbles

Did a nice long walk from the seafront car park infront of Singleton Hospital to Mumbles this evening, rewarding myself with a nice 4 scoop Joe's ice-cream along the way. Was a tad sad seeing the state of the Amusements building outside the ice-cream parlour. The Amusements have been a feature of Oystermouth for as long as I can remember and I will miss them, though I do have to admit I have only actually been in there once in the last 20 years. You can see what the building used to look like here.

Mumbles itself was bathed in a dreamy blue light and, even though the sun had now set, looked stunning.

Mumbles' old lifeboat house

Mumbles Pier entrance

Shop window display

I loved how the water changed the wheels of the bike in this pic

On the way back to the car, I called in to the West Cross Inn for a coffee...

The stained glass window set in the inner entracce door of The West Cross Inn

,,,which was served with the tiniest of welshcakes, which was well tasty:

The weather forecast is a bit grim for the next few days so I don't know when I will next update this blog sorry.