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Dist:0.5km<br/>A very brisk northerly wind and squally showers characterised this day on the beach. Very bracing!
©Pauline Eccles
Dist:0.5km<br/>View showing inaccessible shoreline on the south side of the headland. You can walk out along the top of this headland but the path gets progressively narrower and it's potentially dangerous (especially during/after rain and in windy weather). Rocks in the lower part of the sequence known as the Old Red Sandstone dip south-south-west at 50 degrees and include a layer of volcanic ash (the Townsend Tuff). This location is on the southern limb of the Freshwater East Anticline. Freshwater East Bay (out of sight behind headland) has been formed by erosion of softer rocks in the core of the anticline. The black line is a lichen zone immediately above the limit of high tide. The rocks below this are encrusted with grey barnacles. Wind, waves and tidal currents can create dangerous conditions for kayakers (foreground). The area lies within a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) so please avoid disturbance to wildlife (especially nesting birds). The website of the Pembrokeshire Outdoor Charter Group http://www.pembrokeshireoutdoors.org.uk provides useful advice and a list of local providers of outdoor activities.
©Sid Howells
Dist:0.6km<br/>The swan kept following the flocks of gulls along the shore but they were not too keen to have his company.
©Pauline Eccles
Dist:0.6km<br/>The beach at Freshwater East, taken from the Pembroke Coast Path.
©Robin Lucas
Dist:0.6km<br/>A squally day in late September - one other person braving the beach. Alternating sunny spells and dark brooding skies kept us here for ages.
©Pauline Eccles
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©Tom Pennington
Dist:0.6km<br/>View SW at high tide showing beach and climbing dunes. Valley extending inland for 5km has been formed by erosion of soft rock (Ordovician shales) in core of Freshwater East Anticline.
©Sid Howells
Dist:0.6km<br/>View of Freshwater East Beach from the Pembrokeshire coastal path on Trewent Point
©Geoff Cooper
Dist:0.6km<br/>View south from the dunes towards Trewent Point. The headland is in the lowest part of the sequence of rocks known as the Old Red Sandstone, and includes a layer of volcanic ash (the Townsend Tuff, exposed on the inaccessible south side of the headland). The dunes extend northwards over the ridge on which the modern village has been built. A late period of sand encroachment (post 13th century) led to abandonment and burial of an early Christian settlement (radicarbon date c. 550AD).
©Sid Howells
Dist:0.6km<br/>Close to the Pembrokeshire Coastal Path. Looking east to Swanlake Bay and Priest's Nose Manorbier.
©Dennis Turner
Dist:0.7km<br/>Trewent point from the Pembrokeshire Coastal path overlooking Freshwater East beach.
©Dennis Turner
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©Ruth Sharville
Dist:0.8km<br/>An amazing variety of colours scattered at the bottom of the cliffs near Trewent Point.
©Pauline Eccles
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©Pauline Eccles
Dist:0.8km<br/>This is shown on the 1:25 000 map as a "permitted path".
©Ruth Sharville

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